Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 217
fragment and seldom attain the sym-metrical shape which characterizes the blades of the Upper Palae-olithic. The points are also of finer technique, with their edgesconverging from a broad base to a well-formed point. It is 178 MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE generally assumed that these were held in the… … Fig. 88. Varied shapes of the Acheulean flints described as coups de poing, includingsome miniature forms, after de Mortillet. The oval, the pointed, the almond, thetriangular, the disc-shaped. The late Acheulean is distinguished by an advance inall the finer and smaller implements, tools, and…
Prehistoric peoples · Paleolithic period · Art, Primitive
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