ARROWPOINTS, SPEARHEADS, AND KNIVES. 



859 



of the earlier objects of bronze, sliowiiij;if tliat while these iinplemeiits 

 belonged to the Xeolithic age, from their beauty and renown they con- 

 tinued in use into the Bronze age. 



Mur (le-Barrcz [Aveiiron), France. — -M. E. Cartailhac, of Toulouse, one 

 of the best known arch;eologists in France, and INI. 

 Marcellin Boule, geologist, discovered at Mur de- 

 r>arrez (Aveyron), central Franco, a mine of tlint 

 which had been worked in i)rehistoric times; and 

 M. Cartailhac made a large plaster representation 

 thereof, which Avasin tlie central ball of the anthro- 

 pological section of the World's Fair lield in Paris 

 in 1889. Along with it wei'e displayed the original 

 objects of human Morkmanship, such as tools, 

 implements, fragments, flakes, nuclei, and ham- 

 mers, found in tliese mines and used by prehis- i"*! 



m- 



m^: 



m< 



Fim. 54. 

 SECTION OF PREHISTORIC FLINT MINE OR PIT. 



Mnr-de-Barrez (Aveyron). 



MM. M. Boule .iii.l E. Cartailhac, La France prehistoriqtie, p. 13^, fig. 51. 



A, vegetable earth; B, pit excavatad in prehistoric times, afterwards 

 tilled «itli debris containing unfinished and broken iiuidements and 

 flakes and chips; C, subterranean galleries optMied by iirehistoric 

 miners following the strata of flint; X>, stratum containing nodules of 

 of flint; jy, solid limestone rock; F, natural or acridental filling. 



Fig. 55. 



PREHISTORIC DEEK-HORN 

 HAMMER AND PICK COM- 

 RINED. 



From flini, mine at Mur- 

 de-Barrez (Aveyron), 

 France. J natural .size. 



I.a Kralure prehistorn]\ie, p. ISS, 

 fig. 52. 



toiic man. It made an interesting display and ga\e one a thorough 

 understanding of the subject. It was siibstiintially a repetition in 

 detail of the mine at Spiennes. The geologic formation was Miocene. 

 The flint was laid down in horizontal strata after the same fiishion as 

 at Flint Eidge, Ohio, As at Flint Eidge, the prehistoric; man here dug 

 a series of pits or wells pas.sing through the various strata, not always 

 vertical, but at an angle, rejecting the poorer (qualities of flint, one 

 after the other, until he should arrive at the most desirable. 



