Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 406
with the fossil records pre- MAMMALIAN LIFE 365 served in the fire-hearths of the grottos and shelters, and withthe deposits assembled by beasts and birds of prey in the unin-habited caverns. No artists have ever had before them at the same time andin the same country such a wonderful panorama of… … Fig. i8i. Reindeer with outlines first engraved and then retraced with heavy lines of black manganese finely finished with a wash of gray tone, from the Calerie des Fresques at Font-de-Gaume. After Breuil. forms from the tundras, steppes, Alpine summits, and Eurasiaticforests and meadows, and the…
Prehistoric peoples · Paleolithic period · Art, Primitive
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