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 434
is cylindrical in form, adapted to the MAGDALENIAN INDUSTRY 391 capture of the large fish of the streams. That a barbed weaponwas also used in the chase seems to be indicated by drawingsin the grotto of Niaux and lines engraved on the teeth of thebear, but these drawings indicate the form of an… … 1 s Fig. 195. Bone needles from the grotto of Lacave, Lot. After Vire. employed by the Eskimo and Australians of to-day. Thesedart-throwers are often beautifully carved, as in the case of onefound at Mas dAzil, ornamented with a fine relief of the ibex.Then there were batons de commandement, carved…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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