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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 282

An illustration from Manners and monuments of prehistoric peoples, 1892, leaf 282
t the sametime. A tumulus in the Gruisseny commune (Finist^re),excavated about two years ago, covered over a sepul-chral crypt. At the southeastern extremity waspicked up a badly baked hand-made earthenwarevase with four handles. Beside the vase lay a skull,on which could be made out traces of… … Fin. 80.—Mesaticephalic skull, with woundwhich has heen trepanned. 260 PREfllSTOKlC PEOPLES. of an incTi broad. The discovery of a bronzedagger and two bronze plaques leaves no doubt asto the age of this tumulus. This example of tre-panation is the only well authenticated one of whichI know in…

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