ARROWPOINTS, SPEARHEADS, AND KNIVES. 



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neighborhood, and had the good fortune to make a large collection of 

 objects pertaining to prehistoric man in that country. lie took special 

 care to search for and preserve all those relating to physical anthro- 

 pology, especially those showing skeletal peculiarities. The following 

 is a partial list of objects in liis collection relating to arrow wounds: 



The superior portion of ;i tibia, with a deep and suppurated wound, in which is 

 still eiiihedded a flint arrowpoiiit. 



Fragment of the iliac bone, in the internal part of which is <nibcdded an ariow- 

 point in a wound which showed signs of suppuration. 



Another fragment of iliac bone, in the external part of which was embedded an 

 arrowjioint of tlint in a suppurated wound. 



A dorsal vertebra with Hint arrowjioint in a wound in the body of the vertebra — 

 no suppuration. 



Fig. 196. 



UUM.\N VERTEBRA (PREHISTORIC) PIERCKU WITH FLINT ARROWPOINT (TRANrHAXT TRANSVERSAL). 



Cartailhac, La Fraiue Prehist.>ri.|n,-, ].. -J.iJ, fi:;. l-.'4. 



Lumbar vertebra with a wound which had been much enlarged by suiipiiration 

 and an arrowpoint embedded it it. 



A vertebra with an arrowpoint burieii in the body. (Presented ))ef(jre the Con- 

 gress at La Rochelle.) 



A vertebra with an arrowpoint linricd in the wounil. 



An astragalus with arrowpoint in the wound. 



The caverns of Baumes-Chaudes and L'FTomme Mort were the most 

 complete charnel housesof Neolithic times, each containing about three 

 hundred skeletons capable of identification. It was out of this wealth 

 of uuiterial that Dr. Prunicres was able to obtain such nuiubers of 

 peculiar specimens. 



The prehistoric anthropologists of France have always realized the 

 importance of examining and jireserving the jiathologic or traumatic 

 specimens, and so De ^lortillet, Cartailhac, Nadaillac, De Baye, and 

 others have reported many specimens bearing evidence of arrow 

 wounds. 



Fig. 19G represents a human vertebra pierced by an arrowpoint, 



