EditorialA miner's pick-axe and shovel made of maple wood, from the prehistoric salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria. Salt was mined in Hallstatt as early as 1000 BCE and mining continued until about the first century CE. Mining was resumed in the 12th century.
EditorialCOSTUME OF A NEW TRIBE OF ESQUIMAUX; DISCOVERED BY DR. RAE, ON VICTORIA LAND; AND ARCTIC IMPLEMENTS, FROM MR. BARROW'S COLLECTION, AT THE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION; 1. Bowl. 2. Adze. 3. Fishhook. 4. Snow shovel. 5. Lamp. 6. Pipe. 7. Pick-axe.
EditorialCast brass pen-box, Western Iran, 1281. The interior of the lid has roundels containing the personifications of the planets; from right to left there is Saturn with his pick axe, Jupiter with a book, Mars with a sword and severed head, the Sun in the c...
EditorialCOSTUME OF A NEW TRIBE OF ESQUIMAUX; DISCOVERED BY DR. RAE, ON VICTORIA LAND; AND ARCTIC IMPLEMENTS, FROM MR. BARROW'S COLLECTION, AT THE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION; 1. Bowl. 2. Adze. 3. Fishhook. 4. Snow shovel. 5. Lamp. 6. Pipe. 7. Pick-axe.
EditorialA miner's pick-axe and shovel made of maple wood, from the prehistoric salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria. Salt was mined in Hallstatt as early as 1000 BCE and mining continued until about the first century CE. Mining was resumed in the 12th century.
EditorialCast brass pen-box, Western Iran, 1281. The interior of the lid has roundels containing the personifications of the planets; from right to left there is Saturn with his pick axe, Jupiter with a book, Mars with a sword and severed head, the Sun in the c...