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The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain (1872)

Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908 · London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer · leaf 337

An illustration from The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain, 1872, leaf 337 — lades in use in Mexico in ancient times were of much the same character as these, being in some cases of flint, in others of obsidian. A beautiful blade of chalcedony, 8 inches long, found at Tezcuco, is in the Christy Collection, as well as another of chert ; but the most remarkable is of flint,… … It presents no signs of having been ground or polished * "Zeitschr. fiir Mg. Sp.," July, 1870. t See fig. 1, p. 8. j " Musseum Metallicum," p. 156. § Madsen, pi. xxxvi. S. II " Nord. Olds.," fig. 51. Mem de la Soc. des Ant. du Kord, 1845 — 49, p. 139.

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