Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . d of carvings onbone which have e.\cited much astonishment onaccount of the extraordinary contnust between theirartistic character and the extreme rudeness of manyof the implements of stone with which they areassociated (see fig. 2). bone implements con-sist of well-made needles, borei-s, javelin or harpoonpoints barbed on one or both sides, and implementsof reindeer-horn of unknown use (called by theFrench archaeologists batons cle commfindrmeiit),which are usually carved in relief or ornamentedwith incised representations
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . d of carvings onbone which have e.\cited much astonishment onaccount of the extraordinary contnust between theirartistic character and the extreme rudeness of manyof the implements of stone with which they areassociated (see fig. 2). bone implements con-sist of well-made needles, borei-s, javelin or harpoonpoints barbed on one or both sides, and implementsof reindeer-horn of unknown use (called by theFrench archaeologists batons cle commfindrmeiit),which are usually carved in relief or ornamentedwith incised representations of animals, and occa-sionally of human figures. The animals, iis forinstance a group of reindeer from the cave of LaMadelaine, Dordogne, are drawn with wonderfulfaithfulness, freedom, and spirit. In another in-stance, engraved on a Hat piece of niaMimoth-tiL«kis an outline representation of that animal showingits characteristic elephantine form and the cover-ing of hair peculiar to the The neolithicstone implements consist of axes and axe-hammers,. -Lozenge-sliaped (a), leaf-shaped (6), and barbed(c) arrow-heads of Flmt. knive-s, daggers, spear and arrow heads (fig. 3),saws, chisels, borers, and scrapers. The axes andaxe-hammers are made of many varieties of stonebesides Hint. Some of the finer polished axes areof jade and fibrolite. The jade axes were oncethought to have been importations from (see Jadk), but tliechip|>ingsof their manufac- ture have been found in the lake-dwelling sites of theLake of Constance, and jade itself w;is discoveredalxjut 1887 in situ at Jordaiisnnihl near Breslau inSilesia. The axes are mostly imperforate. Theyare simple wedges, the bull end of which was in-serted in the shaft, or in a socket of stags-horn witha tenon on the upi)er end mortised into the shaft.
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