Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935. [from old catalog] · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 211
of St.Acheul on the Somme. In these earlier strata the prevailingforms of coup de poing are the pointed oval and the lance-pointed, the latter showing very simple chipping, a broad point,and a. thick base. The oval coups de poing are smaller than theChellean tools of the same kind, carefully… … Fig. 83. Illustrating the method of chipping flint implements by pressure with a bone or wooden implement, to produce the finer retouch of the surfaces and edges. finely modelled type of late Acheulean times. It may havebeen from these oval types that the disc form was finallyevolved. There is wide…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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