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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 424

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,oval plates of bone frequently decorated with engraved designs,and slender, finely finished needles. The Middle Magdalenian implements were more widelydistributed than the early t^-pes, the most characteristic weaponbeing the harpoon with a well-defined single row of barbs (Breuil,^^Schmidt).… … Fig. IQ3. Typical forms of Magdalenian bone harpoons. After Ereuil. (.1) i to 9,single-rowed harpoons, characteristic of the early and middle Magdalenian; i, 4, 8,from Bruniquel; 2, 5, from Laugerie Basse; 6, from Mas dAzil; 7, from La Mairie;3 and 9, from Valle and Castillo. About one-quarter…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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