Their favourite weapon is or was the battle-axe of polished stone (basalt, diabase).
Monuments and objects of the polished stone and bronze periods, often confounded in Asia, have been found almost everywhere.
Another, found with a polished stone hatchet in a cairn in Caithness,[2221] is of circular form, ribbed externally like a melon.
This second stone age is called, we know, the age of polished stone.
Not that by any means all the implements in the later age were made of polished stone; far from it.
Thus it may be safely affirmed that no nation which has passed into the metal age retains any distinct recollection of that of polished stone, and a fortiori none of the palaeolithic period, or of the origins of their own race or of mankind.
While this is the age of polished, as distinguished from chipped, stone, the axe (hache) of polished stone is still very rare in the Campignian.
Middle Neolithic and Age of Bronze; layer of pottery, polished stone implements, traces of copper and of bronze.
The later or polished Stone Age, termed by Lubbock the Neolithic Period, characterized by weapons and instruments made of flint and other kinds of stone, with no knowledge of any metal excepting gold.
What was its connection with previous ages, and with the age of polished stone in Western Europe?
Excavations carried out within the circles brought to light rough pottery and axes of polished stone.
According to this idea, the nuclei would belong to a transitional epoch between the period of chipped stone, properly so called, and that of polished stone.
They could only be used for polishing bone and horn, as the reindeer epoch does not admit of instruments of polished stone.
Mortillet, whose arrangement has been usually adopted in France, recognises a period of chipped stone or palaeolithic period, corresponding to the palanthropic age, and a period of polished stone, corresponding to the neanthropic age.
The above examples relate to the men of the older neanthropic age, the men of the so-called neolithic orpolished stone age of archaeologists.
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