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Manners and monuments of prehistoric peoples (1892)

Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de, 1818-1904, D'Anvers, N., d. 1933 · New York, London : G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 151

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so occupied inthe Palseolitliic period. Ameghino gives a still morestriking example of an eaith-dwelling. Near Mercedes,about twenty leagues from Buenos Ayres, he pickedup numerous human bones, together with arrow-heads,chisels, flint knives, bone stilettos and polishers, and])oues of animals… … Fig. 48.—The glyiHodon. All around the (•ara[)ace, says Ameghino, in thereddish agglomerate of the original soil lay charcoalciudeis, burnt and split bones, and flints. Diggingbeneath this, a flint implement was found, with somelong split llama and stag l)ones, which had evidentlybeen liandled by…

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