Hollow-Base Projectile Point – Neolithic Period – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/548353
The tools of the early Paleolithic period were often hand axes, but in later periods
The tools of the early Paleolithic period were often hand axes, but in later periods
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of Peace; Peace personified as a woman standing in a landscape holding the left hand
holding a large rectangular shield in front of his left leg; the weapon in his right hand
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easily plucked, although they are still too hard and acerbic to be eaten out of hand
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amor crudel (cruel love): seated in a landscape, a woman wields a dagger in one hand
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male figure lies comfortably facing upward, supporting his head with his right hand
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