. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . tf^ ii/. Paleolithic Implements. Fig. 1. Solutrian point; shape of laurel leaf. Rigny-sur-Arroux (Saone-et-Loire), 2. Solutrian point. Grotte de TEglise, Dordo^ 3. Solutrian point. Grotte de Gargas, 4. Solutrian point. Grotte de TEglise, Dordogne. Figs. 5 and 6. Solutrian implements, beautifully chipped for spear or other points, with a shoulder onone side. They may have been used for fish spears or liarpoons (flint i: from r)ordogne. A STUDY OF PREHISTORIC ANTHROPOLOGY. 615 The art of tbc
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . tf^ ii/. Paleolithic Implements. Fig. 1. Solutrian point; shape of laurel leaf. Rigny-sur-Arroux (Saone-et-Loire), 2. Solutrian point. Grotte de TEglise, Dordo^ 3. Solutrian point. Grotte de Gargas, 4. Solutrian point. Grotte de TEglise, Dordogne. Figs. 5 and 6. Solutrian implements, beautifully chipped for spear or other points, with a shoulder onone side. They may have been used for fish spears or liarpoons (flint i: from r)ordogne. A STUDY OF PREHISTORIC ANTHROPOLOGY. 615 The art of tbc tliird period, the Solutriau, was much fiuer, althoughcouflued to the chipping- of fliut and the making of bone and horn im-plements. The representative implement of this epoch is the fliutspear-head or dagger, which was shaped like the laurel leaf. It was inthe working of the fliut to make these objects that the best art of theSolutriau epoch is manifested. It may be objected that there was noart required in chipping flint implements, but au inspection of thosefrom the Solut
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