ISBN: 1235678695

Paperback, [EAN: 9781235678691], General Books LLC, General Books LLC, Book, [PU: General Books LLC], General Books LLC, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purch… More...

Paperback, [EAN: 9781235678691], General Books LLC, General Books LLC, Book, [PU: General Books LLC], General Books LLC, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873. Excerpt: ... From the Association.--Proceedings and Report of the Geologists' Association, 1871. From Messrs. Street Bros.--List of Newspapers published in Great Britain and Ireland. From the Editor.--Archivo per 1'Antropologia e la Etnologia, From the Society.--Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. xiv, part 3; Proceedings ditto, vol. xii, No. 87.,fr Dr. A. Leith Adams exhibited a Series of Chipped Flints collected by him "in the Islands of Guernsey and Herm. The author, in conjunction with the Rev. W. C. Lukis, Captain Lukis, and Dr. Murray, R.A., discovered large quantities under the superficial soil and beneath the sand dunes on the north-east of Guernsey, and on the summit of the eastern plateau of Herm, sometimes associated with hand-made pottery and flat water-worn stones, which showed a rough indentation for the thumb on one side, and two similar on the other, evidently for the tips of the fore and mid-finger, so that the implement might have been used for the purpose of chipping flakes from cores. In arranging a very large assortment of the chipped flints, Dr. Adams was enabled to trace the process of formation of the small, nicelybarbed arrow-head found in the cromlechs, and with neolithic implements in the islands, e., from the core to the flake, then the rough point, the imperfectly-fashioned point, the all but completed arrow-head, and numerous nearly-fashioned specimens which had evidently been broken by the workmen when finishing them. Dr. Adams also drew the attention of the Society to a remarkable ancient raised beach in Guernsey, formed of chalk flints, and water-worn granite pebbles, several feet above the sea level, from whence evidently the greater part, if not all, the flints had been derived that were manufactured into impleme..., 1000, Subjects, 1, Arts & Photography, 2, Biographies & Memoirs, 3, Business & Money, 3248857011, Calendars, 4, Children's Books, 12290, Christian Books & Bibles, 4366, Comics & Graphic Novels, 5, Computers & Technology, 6, Cookbooks, Food & Wine, 48, Crafts, Hobbies & Home, 8975347011, Education & Teaching, 173507, Engineering & Transportation, 301889, Gay & Lesbian, 10, Health, Fitness & Dieting, 9, History, 86, Humor & Entertainment, 10777, Law, 17, Literature & Fiction, 173514, Medical Books, 18, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, 20, Parenting & Relationships, 3377866011, Politics & Social Sciences, 21, Reference, 22, Religion & Spirituality, 23, Romance, 75, Science & Math, 25, Science Fiction & Fantasy, 4736, Self-Help, 26, Sports & Outdoors, 28, Teen & Young Adult, 27, Travel, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 1235678695

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