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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 506

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distinctive feature of theAzilian bone industry is the flat harpoon of stag horn; it is knownthat the use of stags antlers for fashioning harpoons began in AZILIAX-TARDENOISIAX INDUSTRY 471 the late Magdalenian, when most of them were still being fash-ioned from reindeer horn. These flat Azilian… … Fig. 250. Geographic distribution of the principal Azilian and Tardenoisian industrialstations in western Europe, also Campigny and Robenhausen. bone-harpoon industry, like the Tardenoisian microlithic flint in-dustry, was largely pursued by fisherfolk. We may imagine that the gradual disappearance…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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