An introduction to the study of prehistoric art (1915)
Parkyn, Ernest Albert, b. 1857 · London, New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 168
-ceros, so realistically depicted in the Dordogne caves, didnot survive beyond the Palaeolithic period. The bisonfiguring so prominently at Altamira is believed to havedisappeared from south of the Pyrenees before the Neolithicage. Another very significant fact is the similarity incharacter of the… … Fig. 153.—Head of deer engraved on shoulder blade ina very definite style from Magdalenian deposits atAltamira. Fig. 154.—Head of deer en-graved on wall at Castillo. and vigour of drawing, the same defects : in fact one can-not fail to discover a real relationship between them. Inboth, the vigorous…
Art, Primitive
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