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An introduction to the study of prehistoric art (1915)

Parkyn, Ernest Albert, b. 1857 · London, New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 159

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f Cueva de la Vieja, are manypaintings in red and brown, ona sort of frieze some twelve yardslong. A second shelter close by—Cueva del Oueso—was alsosimilarly adorned, but the paint-ings here have suffered muchfrom the crumbling away of therock surface. A hundred andFig. i^^.^Aipcra. Female figures… … ^ LAnihrop., XXII. (1911), p. 642, Date II. MURAL DECORATION OF CAVES 11 of them recall by their dress the figures at Cogul, and in oneof these the features are clearly distinguishable (Fig. 148).The forehead is high and straight with slightly markedsuperciliary eminences. The nose is aquiline, and…

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