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Men of the old stone age : their environment, life and art (1916)

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, Scribner · leaf 286

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of the earli-est Mousterian industry;this is nearly the lastphase in the decline ofthe old coup-de-poingmanufacture. While thelance-shaped coup depoing of the late Acheu-lean never appears in anytrue Mousterian indus-try, the shorter, moreheart-shaped type of Combe-Capelle traverses the entire… … Fig. 130. Late Mousterian implements, after deMortillet, one-quarter actual size. 109, no—-Point, finely retouched at one end, from Seine-et-Marne. France. The reverse shows a retouch onthe flaked surface which suggests the double-faceSolutrean retouch. 111, n 2—A very largeracloir, or scraper,…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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