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English: Flint axes "Ascia Lunata" from the verona district

Identifier: archologyfalse00munr (find matches)
Title: Archæology and false antiquities
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Munro, Robert, 1835-1920
Subjects: Archaeology Forgery of antiquities
Publisher: Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 15. Stone Axe from Cumarola, Modena (J) De Stefanis discoveries at Breonio, among which wereseveral flint axes of the Cumarola type (Plate IV.), theonly difference between them being that the latter werechipped instead of being polished. Coincident withChiericis article appeared that of De Mortillet on FauxPaleoethnologiques, - in which the Breonio strangeforms of flint implements are characterised as falsifica-tions. Then began one of the liveliest archaeologicalcontroversies of modern times, quite on a par in its inter- ^ Bull. xi. p. 129, 1SS5. - See p. 37. Plate IV
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Flint Axes (Ascia lunata) from the Verona District (i) CONTINENTAL FORGERIES 6i national character with that of the human jaw of Moulin-Quignon. On the Italian side were ranged Chierici, DeStefani, Strobel, Pigorini, and Castelfranco—all archaeo-logists of the highest standing—none of whom had anyhesitation in accepting the Breonio finds as genuine relicsof some indefinable period of past ages. It is unnecessaryhere to dwell on the details of the successive skirmishesof these belligerents, as the forces finally withdrew with-out coming to any decision. Pigorini replied to the charge of falsification^ by statingthat De Mortillet had not properly qualified himself topronounce an ex cathedra opinion on the relics in ques-tion, as he had not seen the originals, nor visited thelocality, nor studied the deposits in which they werefound, nor seen any of them in situ. Later on- came a certificate from Professor Strobel tothe effect that he had seen and examined the Breonioflints, and was

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