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But the best flint knives of the early period dating to just a little before the time of the Ist Dynasty, when flint-working had attained its apogee, and copper had just begun to be used are undoubtedly the most remarkable stone weapons ever made in the world.
To what age these Troglodytes belonged nobody knows, but it is not doubted that they came after the flint-working savages, whose implements are found in the natural caverns and shelters near the ground. We continued up the valley of the Beuene.
Copper weapons have been found in pre-dynastic graves beside the finest buff pottery with elaborate red designs, so that we may say that when the flint-working and pottery of the Neolithic Egyptians had reached its zenith, the use of copper was already known, and copper weapons were occasionally employed.
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