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Evolution in art: as illustrated by the life-histories of designs (1895)

Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940 · London, W. Scott, ltd. · leaf 200

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They occur in great profusion in America from north to south, but here they are predominantly religious or pictographic in significance. Animal forms are not characteristic of African art, except among the Bushmen, and there we find pictures of animals which are comparable with those of the Eskimo… … Fig. 90. — Horses etched on an antler from La Madelaine; from Taylor. was abating and when men lived in caves, used chipped, unpolished stone implements, and were unacquainted with pottery. In archaeological nomenclature this is known as the Epoque Magdalenienne of the Cave Period in the…

Decoration and ornament · Art, Primitive

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