Fossil Man of Mentone.

 

Stone weapons described by Mahudel in 1734.

Copper hatchets found in Hungary, and now in the National Museum of Budapest.

Stone statues on Easter Island.

Fort Hill, Ohio.

Group of sepulchral mounds.

 

Cliff-house on the Rio Mancos.

House in a rock of the Montezuma Cañon.

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

Bears' teeth converted into fish-hooks.

Fish-hook made out of a boar's tusk.

A, a large barbed arrow from one side of the Plantade shelter (Tarn-et-Garonne). B, lower part of a barbed harpoon from the Plantade deposit.
 

Ancient Scandinavian boat found beneath a tumulus at Gogstadten.

Ancient boat discovered in the bed of the Cher.

A lake pirogue found in the Lake of Neuchâtel. 1. As seen from the outside. 2 and 3. Longitudinal and transverse sections.

Stones used as anchors, found in the Bay of Penhouet. 1, 2, 3, stones weighing about 160 pounds each. 4 and 5, lighter stones, probably used for canoes.

Scraper from the Delaware Valley.

Implement from the Delaware Valley.

Worked flints from the Lafaye and Plantade shelters (Tarn-et-Garonne).

1. Stone javelin-head with handle. 2. Stone hatchet with handle.

1. Fine needles. 2. Coarse needles. 3. Amulet. 4 and 6. Ornaments. 5. Cut flint. 7. Fragment of a harpoon. 8. Fragments of a reindeer antler with signs or drawings. 9. Whistle. 10. One end of a bow (?). 11. Arrow-head. (From the Vache, Massat, and Lourdes caves.)

Amulet made of the penien bone of a bear, and found in the Marsoulas Cave.

Various stone and bone objects from California.

Dipper found in the excavations at the Chassey Camp.

Pottery of a so far unclassified type found in the Argent Cave (France).

1. Lignite pendant. 2. Bone pendant (Thayngen Cave).

 

Round pieces of skull pierced with holes (Al. de Baye's collection).

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.

Whistle from the Massenat Collection.

Staff of office.

Staff of office made of stag-horn pierced with four holes.

 

Staff of office found at Lafaye.

 

Staff of office in reindeer antler, with a horse engraved on it, found at Thayngen.

Staff of office found at Montgaudier.

Carved dagger-hilt (Laugerie-Basse).

The great cave-bear, drawn on a pebble found in the Massat Cave (Garrigou collection).

 

Mammoth, or elephant, from the Lena Cave.

 

Seal engraved on a bear's tooth found at Sordes.

Head of a horse from the Thayngen Cave.

 

Bear engraved on a bone from the Thayngen Cave.

Reindeer grazing, from the Thayngen Cave.

Head of Ovibos moschatus engraved on wood, found in the Thayngen Cave.

 

Young man chasing the aurochs, from Laugerie.

 

Fragment of a staff of office, from the Madeleine Cave.

 

Human face carved on a reindeer antler, found in the Rochebertier Cave (Charente).

The glyptodon.

Mylodon robustus.

Objects discovered in the peat-bogs of Laybach. A. Earthenware vase. B. Fragment of ornamented pottery. C. Bone needle. D. Earthenware weight for fishing-net. E. Fragment of jawbone.

Small terra-cotta figures, from the Laybach pile dwellings.

Nurhag at Santa Barbara (Sardinia).

“Talayoti” at Trepuco (Minorca).

Dolmen of Castle Wellan (Ireland).

Dolmen of Arrayolos (Portugal).

Megalithic sepulchre at Acora (Peru).

The great broken menhir of Locmariaker, with Cæsar's table.

Covered avenue of Dissignac (Loire-Inférieur); view of the chamber at the end of the north gallery.

Covered avenue near Antequera.

Ground plan of the Gavr'innis monument.

Monoliths at Stennis, in the Orkney, Islands.

Cromlech near Bône (Algeria).

Dolmen at Pallicondah, near Madras (India).

Dolmen at Maintenon, with a table about 19½ feet long.

Part of the Mané-Lud dolmen.

Sculptures on the menhirs of the covered avenue of Gavr'innis.

Dolmen with opening (India).

Dolmen near Trie (Oise).

Bronze objects found at Krasnojarsk (Siberia).

Prehistoric polisher, near the ford of Beaumoulin, Nemours.

Section of a flint mine; t vegetable earth, c pure limestone, c m Marly limestone, s flint.

Plan of a gallery, half destroyed in making the excavation which revealed its existence. U gallery still visible; G′ gallery destroyed by the excavation.

Picks, hammers, and mattocks made of stag-horn.

Cranium of a woman, from Cro-Magnon, seen full face.

Fragment of human tibia with exostosis enclosing the end of a flint arrow.

Fragment of human humerus pierced at the elbow joint, found in the Trou d'Argent.

Mesaticephalic skull, with wound which has been trepanned.

Trepanned Peruvian skull.

Skull from the Bougon dolmen (Deux-Sèvres), seen in profile.

Trepanned prehistoric skull.

Prehistoric spoon and button found in a lake station at Sutz (Switzerland).

Group at Liberty (Ohio).

Trenches at Juigalpa (Nicaragua).

Vases found at Santorin.

Funeral vase containing human ashes. Found at a depth of 50 feet.

Large terra-cotta vases found at Troy.

Earthenware pitcher found at a depth of 19½ feet.

Vase found beneath the ruins of Troy.

Terra-cotta vase found with the treasure of Priam.

Vase found beneath the ruins of Troy.

Earthenware pig found at a depth of 13 feet.

Vase surmounted by an owl's head. Found beneath the ruins of Troy.

 

Copper vases found at Troy.

Gold and silver objects from the treasure of Priam.

Terra-cotta fusaïoles.

Cover of a vase with the symbol of the swastika. Found at Troy.

Stone hammer from New Jersey bearing an undeciphered inscription.

Chulpa near Palca.

Dolmen at Auvernier near the Lake of Neuchâtel.

 

A stone chest used as a sepulchre.

Example of burial in a jar.

Aymara mummy.

Peruvian mummies.

Erratic block from Scania, covered with carvings.

Engraved rock from Massibert (Lozère).