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Pre-historic times, as illustrated by ancient remains and the manners and customs of modern savages (1892)

Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 229

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antiquity, was exposedready for examination in the manneralready described. Some of the piles still stand twoor three feet above the level of thepeat, but the greater number arebroken off lower down. We stoodon one of the upper platforms, whichseems to have been the floor onwhich the huts were… … Swiss Stone Axe. AXES. KNIVES. 19.) water, rising and sinking with it; * or whether they werefixed, and rested on a sort of artificial island, formed by theclay, branches, etc., which now occupy the interspaces betweenthe different platforms. Subsequent observations, however,confirmed as they have…

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