Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1915)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 428
line; it is cylindrical in form, adapted to the MAGDALENIAN INDUSTRY 391 capture of the large fish of the streams. That a barbed weaponwas also usedin the chase seems to be indicated by drawingsin the grotto of Niaux and lines engraved on the teeth of thebear, but these drawings indicate the form… … Fig. 195. Bone needles from the grotto of Lacave, Lot. After Vire. employed by the Eskimo and Australians of to-day. Thesedart-throwers are often beautifully carved, as in the case of onefound at Mas dAzil, ornamented with a fine relief of the ibex.Then there were batons de commandement, carved…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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