 The materials also with which man has to deal are very much alike; wood, bone, and to a certain extent stone, have everywhere the same properties. The obsidian flakes of the Aztecs resemble the flint flakes of our ancestors, not so much because the ancient...  Annual Reports - Page 591896Full view - About this book
 | Sir John Lubbock - Anthropology - 1865 - 560 pages
...much alike ; wood, bone, and to a certain extent stone, have every* See, for instance, p. 394. where the same properties. The obsidian flakes of the Aztecs...not so much because the ancient Briton resembled the Aztee, as because the fracture of flint is like that of obsidian. So also the pointed bones used as... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Science - 1870 - 694 pages
...notice, but has now become one of the leading facts of prehistoric archaeology. As may our own country, not so much because the ancient Briton resembled the...because the fracture of flint is like that of obsidian. And his remark (p. 121), that any child with a box of bricks will build dolmens and triliths TASMANIA!«... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Antiquities - 1878 - 704 pages
...of life are simple and similar all over the world. The materials also with which man has to deal are very much alike; wood, bone, and to a certain extent...in the manufactured article, and some even of the * See, for instance, p. 507. simplest implements of stone are very different among different races.... | |
 | William Henry Holmes - Indian textile fabrics - 1896 - 680 pages
...though it frequently happens that there are large intervening areas where it has not been observed.' On the whole, it seems most probable that many of...fracture of flint is like that of obsidian. So also the рointed bones used as awls are necessarily similar all over the world. Similarity exists, in fact,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Archaeology - 1900 - 984 pages
...of life aje simple and similar all over the world. The materials also with which man has to deal are very much alike ; wood, bone, and to a certain extent...obsidian. So also the pointed bones used as awls are neceasarily similar all over the world. Similarity exists, in fact, rather in the raw material than... | |
 | Anthropology - 1900 - 958 pages
...Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, page 59, the following statement is to be found : " The obsidian flakes of the Aztecs resemble the flint...the Aztec, as because the fracture of flint is like tliat of obsidian." The fracture of flint is like that of obsidian in that both break with what is... | |
 | Anthropology - 1900 - 880 pages
...Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, page 59, the following statement is to be found : " The obsidian flakes of the Aztecs resemble the flint...because the fracture of flint is like that of obsidian." The fracture of flint is like that of obsidian in that both break with what is called conchoidal fracture.... | |
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