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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 66

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RY OF MAN 31 exposures of the limestones which had been laid down by thesea in bygone geologic ages from Carboniferous to Cretaceoustimes. The upper valleys of the Rhine and Danube traversedthe white Jurassic limestones which are again exposed in a broadband along the foot-hills of the Pyrenees,… … Fig. 10. Ideal section of the bluff overlying the Diissel River, near Diisseldorf, showingthe mode of formation of the famous Neanderthal Cave, where the original type ofthe Neanderthal race was discovered in 1856. A typical resort of the cave man.After Lyell. c. Entrance of percolating waters from…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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