Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1917 — STONE AGE WEAPON FOUND [ARTICLE]

STONE AGE WEAPON FOUND

Flint Dug Up in Trench Found to Be -= Club Head Used In Prehistoric Days. London. —An Australian soldier digging a trench in France found a strangely chipped knob of flint and fastened to it a strong handle, thus converting it into a knobkerry, which he always carried In his belt. He used It to crack German heads in trench raids. When he brought it to England the interest of antiquarians was attracted by the flint. Investigations and comparisons resulted tn authorities agreeing that It was a war weapon of the Stone Age, used then in exactly the same manner as the Australian was using it in 1917 and showing that tn the Stone Age men fought over the same battlefields.

, A patient anatomist has counted 272 hatrs to each square centimeter in a European, 252 to 286 in a Japanese, only 214 on the average In the Ainoq, a race noted for its extreme pllosity.