"Pinus sylvestris" Quotes from Famous Books
... planks, which are probably the remains of the platform. One of the posts was still covered with bark, and it was easy to recognize the silver birch (BETULA ALBA). Other posts consisted of the trunks of resinous trees, such as the PINUS PICEA, the PINUS SYLVESTRIS, and the larch, which now only grow in the lofty Alpine valleys. Amongst the industrial objects found in the Lagozza pile dwelling were polished stone hatchets, hammers, polishers of hard stone, knife-blades, flint scrapers, and seven or eight arrows with transverse cutting ... — Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac |