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 199
large slabs,and containing as many as eight or ten urns full of Eateman : Ten Vears Diggings, Preface, p. 11. 176 PREHISTORIC PEOPLES. calcined bones. The excavation of a tumnlus in theplain of Tarbes bronght to light an enormons block ofgranite resting on blocks of quartz. The spaces betweenthese… … Fig. 56.—The large dolmen of Coreoro, near Plouharnel. higli in the middle. It contained a dozen sepulchralchambers. More rarely tumuli ar(^ meicly artificial mounds ofearth, sometimes Iising to a gicat height. Tliose ofNorth America are the most remaikable know 11. Thatof Cahokia is now ninety-one…
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