Things: A Volume of Objects Devised by Man's Genius which are the Measure of His CivilizationGeoffrey Grigson, Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith |
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... stone mauls . Neolithic man used stone for house - building and tomb - building , no doubt employing as often as he could surface stone which had been split by weathering . But he could also have quarried it to some degree , to judge by ...
... stone mauls . Neolithic man used stone for house - building and tomb - building , no doubt employing as often as he could surface stone which had been split by weathering . But he could also have quarried it to some degree , to judge by ...
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... stone is elongated and may be saddle- shaped , the upper stone being pushed backwards and forwards on the lower with both hands . A one - handed variety is sometimes distinguished as a ' grain - rubber ' . In a rotary quern both stones ...
... stone is elongated and may be saddle- shaped , the upper stone being pushed backwards and forwards on the lower with both hands . A one - handed variety is sometimes distinguished as a ' grain - rubber ' . In a rotary quern both stones ...
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... stone , bronze and iron for tools and weapons . The first he probably guessed at , as we might infer that Adam had stone tools from the fact that Tubal Cain , the ' first metal- worker ' , followed him seven generations later . The ...
... stone , bronze and iron for tools and weapons . The first he probably guessed at , as we might infer that Adam had stone tools from the fact that Tubal Cain , the ' first metal- worker ' , followed him seven generations later . The ...
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GROTTO at Painshill Park Surrey SirènChina | 186 |
Kircher Ars magna lucis | 294 |
Mavungu Pitt Rivers Museum | 399 |
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