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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 539

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such as the knives (couteaux), planers (grattoirs),and spear or dart heads (pointes de sagaie), butwe notice the appearance of two entirely newflint implements: first, the triangular knife orstone hatchet (tranchet), of the type (Fig. 264)common in the Danish kitchen-middens; thisknife has a broad,… … Fig. 265. Stonepick, or pic, fromthe type station ofCampigny, afterSalmon, dAult duMesnil, and Capi-tan. About one-half actual size. TRANSITION TO THE NEOLITHIC 495 flakes of flint. If we regard the Campignian as a prolongedindustrial stage in northern Europe, it certainly precedes theappearance of…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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