The Stone Age On The Prairies

Orchard, W. J.

Regina, Saskatchewan - Toronto, Ontario, 1942


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Details

Hardcover, 173 pages, 5.5x7.5 in. [14x18.5 cm.], B&W photographs.

Condition

Front pastedown and the lower margin of the preliminaries and the first 24 pages moisture stained and slightly wrinkled.

Notes

The author, first president of the Saskatchewan Archaeological Society, discusses archaeological artifacts from his own collection and those of other Saskatchewan collectors, representing a wide variety of specimens found throughout Saskatchewan. The book includes brief chapters on pestles, pottery, stone axes, scrapers, flint knives, flint awls, bone tools, symbols and objects of worship, human skeletal remains, the cult of the turtle, stone pipes, and other artifacts.