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 297
no doubt on that point; cica-trization had been complete, the bony tissue having ^ Btti. Soi. Afiih., 1887^ p. 527. 274 PREHISTORIC PEOPLES. returned to its original condition. Then after death,at an adult age, the relations or friends of the deceasedhad cut out further round portions of the skull… … Fig. 83.—Trepanned prehistoric skull. ceremony of initiation, perhaps even a custom incul-cated l^y an established religion. The child who hadbeen subjected to it and had survived—as probablymost of the victims did survive,—attained to a certainposition and celebrity in his life, and after his…
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