Polished-Stone Epoch

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Man of the Polished-Stone Epoch.

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Artist

Name:
Bayard, Émile
Dates:
1837-1891
Country:
France

Illustration

Subject:
People
Technique:
Wood Engraving
Engraver:
Laplante, Charles
Format:
Portrait (taller)
Source:
University of California Libraries, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:
Primitive man
Author:
Figuier, Louis
Publisher:
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1876
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Description:

A disheveled man with a club in one hand is half-kneeling on a rock and stretching his arm out, as though pointing to something unexpected high up in the distance. He carries a stone axe at the waist and a second one is lying at his feet along with an animal jawbone and a stone polisher.

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