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Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1916)

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 257

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keleton was laid out.^- The head rested on a number of flintfragments carefully piled together—a sort of stone pillow; thedead lay in a sleeping posture, with the head resting on the rightforearm. An exceptionally fine coup de poing was close by thehand, and numerous charred and spHt bones of wild… … Pic. ioq. Grotto of La Chapelle-aux-Saints, Correze, a few miles to the eastward of XeMoustier. After Boule. this locality; but by French archaeologists and by Schmidt theseimplements are regarded as of the earliest Mousterian age, inwhich it is well known that the Acheulean coup de poing…

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