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Man before metals (1902)

Joly, N. (Nicolas), 1812-1885 · London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. · leaf 259

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certain caves of thereindeer age ; in that of Brmiiquel, for instance, and morerarely in other caves of Dordogne. They occur in the burialplaces of the neolitliic age in France, in the dolmens ofPoitou, but they are generally rare in the latter, and inthose of Great Britain and Ireland. Among the… … Fig. 122. Stone moutau and ii sii-k, iound at Ty-Mawr (Holyhead). (After Evans.) are made of hard rock, such as granite, diorite, gneiss, andtheir upper surface is more or less hollow. The pestlewas also of stone, spherical or oval in form, or else clubshaped. Shallow depressions were made in the…

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