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 275
y of the human bones found in the VivaraisCave bear traces of having been violently fracturedby stone weapons with tapering points. In the Chal-les Cave (Savoy) lies the skeleton of a woman whoseskull was fractured l)y a flint weapon, but in thiscase death was evidently immediate, at least if wemay… … Fig. 78.—Fragment of human tibia with exostosis enclosing the end of a flint arrow. the arrow-head broke off. It had, however, been flungwith such a sure hand that it had been driven teninches deep into the bony tissue. Here, too, theabsence of any exostosis proves that death quicklyfollowed the…
Archaeology
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