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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 273

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is, so to speak, encased in thewound by the formation ofbony tissue. Of the nineteen craniafound in the Neolithic sepul-chi*e of Vaureal two showtraces of old wounds. Oneof them, that of a woman,has three different scars, two of Avhich were of woundsthat had healed, whilst the third in the occiput… … Fig. 77.—Skull of a woman foundat Sordes, showing a severe woundfrom which she recovered. Bidl. Soc. Anih., 1878, p. 215. The Baumes-Chaudes caves are the mostcomplete charnel houses of Neolithic times yet discovered. Dr. Prunierescollected in them as many as three hundred skeletons. FIGHTS AND…

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