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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 353

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F THE OLD STONE AGE with the main beam; some of these batons are ornamented withrude engravings, but not as yet with sculpture. Strong and very sharp graving-tools were also needed for thesculpture out of ivory and soapstone of such human figures andfigurines as the statuettes found in the Grottes… … Fig. 152. Prototypes of the Solutrean laurel-leaf point, probably an imple-ment of war or the chase. After Breuil. Large symmetrical flakes chippedover the entire surface. 1, 2. Late Aurignacian types from Font Robert.3, 4, 5. Points from the Proto-Solutrean layer of the Grotte du Trilobite.…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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