Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 216
ma-terial out of which the large typical implements are fashioned;but the Jlake begins to lend itself to a great variety of forms,as witnessed in the evolution of the Levallois knives of theUpper Acheulean and the highly varied flake implements of theMousterian and Aurignacian industries. The… … Fig. 85. Large, typical Acheulean implements, chiefly described as coups de poing, afterde Mortillet. One-quarter actual size. One of these (41) shows at one end a part of thecrust of the flint nodule left intact to afford a smooth, firm grip to the hand.Another (43) shows a part of the crust…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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