Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 524
composition, for not only the lower jaw but a number ofthe neck vertebras were found with each skull. The heads had THE BURIALS AT OFNET 477 been severed from the necks by a sharp flint, the marks of whichare plainly visible on some of the vertebrae. It is noteworthy that most of these skulls are… … 254 Burial nest of six skulls, all facing westward, from the large grotto of Ofnet.After R. R. Schmidt. [people were offered in sacrifice, in which case decapitation wastthe means of death. But, then, how explain the abundant orna-ments of stag teeth and snail shells {Helix nemoralis) with…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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