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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 266

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1887. INDUSTRY. 243 clay or with calcareous earth taken from the detiitus.In spite of these precautions, landslips frequently oc-curred, and implements of stag-horn (Fig. 75) have oftenbeen flattened by the fall of the roof of tlie gallery.It is really curious to find implements of an… … Fig. 74.—Plan of a gallery, half destroyed in making the excavation whichrevealed its existence. G gallery still visible ; G gallery destroyed by theexcavation. of blows of the picks are still to be seen, and in manycases a flint oi* horn-pick point is still imbedded in therock or limestone, as if…

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