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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 483

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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 of… … Fig. 242. Entrance to the grotto of Kesslerloch, near Lake Constance. Photographby X. 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…

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