Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1916)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 517
tion wasthe means of death. But, then, how explain the abundant orna-ments of stag teeth and snail shells {Helix nemoralis) with whichthe skulls of the women and little children were decorated,and the treasured implements of flint with which all save one ofthe men and a few of the women and… … THE NEW RACES 479 shells, the separate interment of the skull—all these were customsmore or less characteristic of the Upper Palaeolithic, but neverobserved in Neohthic times. It will be recalled that the custom of burying the entire body,as well as that of embedding the body in ochre, is first…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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