Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples
by Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de Nadaillac
- Pages
- about 348
- Category
- History
- Language
- English
- Reading time
- 6.4 h at 250 wpm
From the opening
VI. Industry, Commerce, Social Organization; Fights, Wounds and Trepanation
231
VII. Camps, Fortifications, Vitrified Forts; Santorin; the Towns upon the Hill of Hissarlik 279
2. Copper hatchets found in Hungary and now in national museum of Budapest. 20
10. 1. Fragments of arrows made of reindeer horn from the Martinet cave (Lot-et-Garonne).
2. Point of spear or harpoon in stag-horn (one third natural size).
3. and 4. Bone weapons from Denmark.
5. Harpoon of stag-horn from St. Aubin.
6. Bone fish-hooks pointed at each end, from Waugen. 61
13. A. Large barbed arrow from one side of the Plan Lade shelter (Tarn-et-Garonne).
B. Lower part of a barbed harpoon from the Plantade deposit. 65
16. A lake pirogue found in the Lake of Neuchâtel.
1. As seen outside.
2. and 3. Longitudinal and transverse sections.
Stones used as anchors, found in the Bay of Penhouet. 76
17. 1, 2, 3. Stones weighing about 160 lbs. each.
4. and 5. Lighter stones, probably used for canoes. 80
22. 1. Fine needles. 2. Coarse needles. 3. Amulet. 4 and 6. Ornaments. 5. Cut flints. 7. Fragment of a harpoon. 8. Fragments of
reindeer antlers with signs or drawings. 9. Whistle. 10. One end of a bow (?). 11. Arrow-head. (From the Vache, Massat, and
Lourdes caves) 91
23. Amulet made of the penien bone of a bear and found in the Marsoulas cave. 92
26. Pottery of a so far unclassified type found in the Argent cave (France). 98
28. Round pieces of skull, pierced with holes (M. de Baye’s collection). 110
29.
Part of a rounded piece of a human parietal.
Stiletto made of the end of a human radius.
Disk, made of the burr of a stag’s antler. 111
34. Staff of office in reindeer antler, with a horse engraved on it (Thayngen). 115
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