Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 237
cultural transition toward the Aurignacian. Southern Britain tells of a similar sequence, which we mayinterpret as follows. Belonging either to the temperate cUmate 198 MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE of early Mousterian times, or to the period of the recession of thefourth glaciation, known in the Alps… … Fig. gg. Excavations of the Mousterian culture layer under the clifiE of Le Moustier.Photograph by N. C. Nelson. neath 4 to 5 feet of sand and loam and rest upon the surface ofolder river-gravels. Among the later river deposits several oldland surfaces have been discovered; they consist of a few…
Prehistoric peoples · Paleolithic period · Art, Primitive
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