The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 21
aled to us the fruits of human indus-try at a period prodigiously remote,centuries anterior to the building ofthe pyramids of Egypt and the palacesof the Babylonian kings. Geologists have given the namequaternary period to this epoch, be-cause it was the last of the four greatgeological periods.… … nC. I.—ENGRAVED BONE. From the Cavcrne de la Madeleine, Dordogne.(British Museum.) Straits of Messina. Sweden, Denmark,and Scotland were buried under asheet of polar ice; the glaciers of theAlps were of vast extent; one de-scended as far as Lyons. In the quaternary period, horses,cattle, and goats…
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