Show WORKSHOP YEARS OLD atts I 1 in discovery of a great 1 trean workshop la the foothills of in southern arance la S the insel y bation this open air factory where crafts at net of ears ago tools and weapons out of r quartzite extended over sev t acres and now Is covered by a t j bussell collaco of the e it staff made the discovery while ewt through the forest over a ruin le cart track ills attention nas to some obviously man nude N flakes and soundings mide H the area revealed the width ri of the ancient workshop isa bb within a few miles of the i harsoulas where the and the university of tou ahse are conducting a joint archeo lit t step in cave man coture i alie of the rosans represents an important stage a it buman culture the acme of the stone industry and the shipped alon to the stage when atone tools and kalons were fashioned by grinding 4 it is the second stage in the chro cology of cave man culture the cul fa ure Is distinguished by the so called pta laurel leaf blades of stone knives or 1 daggers pieces of flint were beaucl tully flaked on both sides to produce r edges the ancient i made large thin spearheads spear heads S drapers and saws by the chipping f process at which they had acquired ga peat skill these artisans eresuma K my were cave aft ellers although there ati may already have been some special m of craftsmen aali toward the end of the cabie ohp revolutionary dincov si ej of the possibility of making tools is tj grinding instead of chipping this ras one of the great transition points afa human culture but resulted for a time in a marked artistic deterioration ohp new method was being per by many generations of tool eted lers the site discovered by ilus J is believed to mark a transition stage from ahe to the sue ean period twenty one soundings made russell made twenty one soundings the forest below a level of lamus varying from about sixty cen goeters to more than a meter in thick less was a layer fifty centimeters mck consisting of pebbles flint nodules of poor quality tightly packed with earth this area had quarried from the artifacts and debris of man nt were found to this level as tell as in the lower part of the hu giua in one sounding a considerable I 1 of flints was found where e quarry layer appeared to have been dug into deeper than elsewhere the stone had been thrown aside so r to make a depression whose orders were covered by only a few centimeters of humus despite the extent of the workshop russell reports the yield of the sta cwm is meager and the proportion of worked flints and tools Is only about 15 per cent of the whole in the nearby cave 0 larte kua sell reports linding traces of a hitherto neglected industry in poor quality two lasers of artifacts were found but the form of the quartzite articles wa limited by the poor quality of the material and no particular form was recognizable chev may have been made in the near by workshop the possibility Is sug that even the cave man had his and expensive artifacts the material consists mostly of crude choppers and scrapers stones re touched on one side |