Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 470
attribute any of the art to this period. The first entrance ofAltamira by the Cr6-Magnon artists is dated by the discoveryof engravings on bone of the female red deer, which are identical MAGDALENIAN SCULPTURE 427 with those on the walls and which belong to very ancient Magda-lenian times, the… … Fig. 230. Statuette of a mammoth in reindeer horn from the Abri de Plantade at Bruni-quel. After Piette. A statuette presenting the general form of the mammoth withsome fantastic features. It formed part of a pendant of which the shank, terminatingwith a perforation, has been broken. The tusks were…
Prehistoric peoples · Paleolithic period · Art, Primitive
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