Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 122
the body on the hinder extremities.^^ Itinvolves changes in the interior of the body, the loss of the tail,the freeing of the arms, and the establishment of the diaphragmas the chief muscle of respiration. The thigh-bone of Pithecan-thropus is so much like that of man as to support the theory… … control of the thumb and fingers had been cultivated, perhapsin the fashioning of primitive implements of wood and stone.The discovery of the use of wood as an implement and weaponprobably preceded that of the use of stone. EUiot Smith describes this stage of development as follows:... The…
Prehistoric peoples · Paleolithic period · Art, Primitive
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