The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 22
hames, of the Somme, theMarne, &c., deep beneath the sandspiled up by rivers in flood. Many ofthese axes, triangular or oval in shape,are carved with great dexterity bymeans of small chips flaked off thestone, and show a regularity of outlinewhich testifies to the delight of primi-tive man in… … FIG. 2.—MAMMOTH ENGRAVED ON WALL. (Cave of Combarelles, Dordogne.) is more abundant. The reindeer, non-existent in the earlier phase, becameas numerous as horses or kine, fur-nishing man not only with succulentmeat, but with horn, bone, and ten-dons, which lent themselves to thefirst essays of…
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