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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 262

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intoscrapers or chisels, whilst near them were the verypolishers on which they had been pointed. We have just spoken of polishers, and we said sometime ago that it was by prolonged Iubbing that theremarkable weapons of Neolithic times were produced.AVe must add now that a whole series of the… … Y. M 240 PREHISTORIC PEOPLES. One would have exjjected to find the ground nearthese polishers covered with flakes of flint and piecesof tools of all kinds, but nothing of the kind has beendiscovered; a fact which leads us to suppose that theworkmen only came down into the valley to finish offtheir…

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