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The epoch of the mammoth and the apparition of man upon the earth (1878)

Southall, James Cocke, 1827-1897 · London, Trübner & Co. · leaf 90

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stone. PALEOLITHIC ART. But it is the 2^(^l(^olitMc art, as evinced by the draw-ings on bone and stone, which seems least of allto accord with the vast antiquity claimed for theserelics. Some of these delineations are really astonish-ing, and far in advance of anything which can beaccomplished… … staff of authority, on which are graven representations of a man,two horses, and a fish. ^ The drawing, so elegant and accurate iu its execution, speaks louderthan all the facts presented to prove the antiquity of man. No imbecilehand guided that pencil, and the blood which coursed in its veins is…

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