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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 489

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t and bone appears to be very 444 MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE similar: flint microliths appear in increasing number and variety;beside the small flint flakes with blunted backs, numerous feather-shaped flakes of Pre-Tardenoisian type are found, as well as thetypes of graving flints. Some specialties… … Fig. 242. Entrance to the grotto of Kesslerloch, near Lake Constance. Photograph by N. C. Nelson. are found upper Magdalenian chisels of reindeer horn and per-fected bone needles, batons, and harpoons with double rows ofbarbs. On the other hand, works of art and decorative designsin horn and bone…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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