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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 18117. 



tranchant transversal, from the eaverii of Pierre-Mielielot (Marne), 



collcetcd by Baron <le I>aye. Fig. 197 represents a human tibia with 

 an arrowpoint inserted, ibiind in the dolmen of 

 I; I Font-liial near Saint-Afirique (Aveyron). ]>aron 



de Baye has been, after Dr. Prunieres, one of the 

 most saccessful seekers lor these specimens. In 

 the cavern of Villevenard he found one skull con- 

 taining three tranchaut-transversal arrowheads, 

 while another was lodged between the dorsal verte- 

 bne. Other human vertebra' pierced with flint ar- 

 rowpoints were found in the caves of Petit-Morin. 

 In one sei)ulchral cavern the Baron found 73 flint 

 arrowpoints, and, as in the case of Villevenard, 

 tbeir position was such as to lead to the supposi- 

 tion that they had been sticking in the flesh of the 

 body at tlic time of interment and had fallen down 

 as decomposition progressed. A human vertebra 

 was found by M. Cartailhac in the covered Avays 

 of Castellet, near Aries, Avith a stone arrowpoint 

 incrusted therein. The absence of any exostosis 

 shows that death quickly followed. The list of 

 examples or specimens showing arrow wounds 

 might be augmented considerably, but enough in- 

 stances have been given to sliow that the use of 

 arrows and other weapons was habitual, and no 



reason is known why an investigation, if carried to any considerable 



extent and in any great detail, might not make a large addition to the 



data already obtained.^ 



Fig. 108 (tig. 39—5531, Army 



Medical Museum) represents an 



ancient arrow wound in the 



skull of an aborigine. The skull 



was originally received by the 



Smithsonian Institution from 



Dr. (J. Yates, Alameda County, 



California, and transferred to 



the Army Medical Museum. It 



shows a man of advanced age. 



A long flint arrowpoint had 



penetrated the skull through the 



left orbit, and the figure shows 



it in place as originally found 



impacted. This specimen is to 



Fit;. 197. 

 HUM ANIIHI A (prehistoric; 

 riEIiCEI} WITH FLINT AK 

 KOWPOINT (TRANCHANT 

 TRANSVERSA I.). 



France. 



Fig. 198. 



ANCIENT SKULL PIERCED WITH A FLINT ARROWPOINT,) 



PERFORATOR. 



California. 



' Students desirous of i)ur8iung the subject arc referred to C'artailhac's La Frauc€ 

 Prr'histori(|ue, p. 121, fi-^s. 121, 125; L'Aiithropologio.VII, 3, ISBfi, pp. 312, 313, figs. 3, 4] 

 G. do Morlill(!t, Matcriaux, etc., 1877, VIII, p. 161, and others therein mentioned. 



