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 395
awings and symbols it would appear that barbed weapons ofsome kind were used in the chase, but no barbed flints occur atany time in the Palaeolithic, nor has any trace been found ofbone barbed arrow-heads or any direct evidence of the existenceof the bow. In compensation for the decline of flint is… … Fig. 175. Decorated sagaies, or javelin points, ofbone; pointed at one end and bevelled at theother for the attachment of a shaft. After Breuil. MAGDALENIAN CULTURE 355 their decorative motifs; these become much more frequent inMagdalenian times. They occur in the most ancient Magda-lenian levels…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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