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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 80

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is seen on tools and weapons asawls, spearheads, and harpoons. The ornamentation iscomposed of dots and lines forming simple oeomelric de-signs.^ One of the best examples of this style of ornamenta-tion in the form of chevron design is seen on a four-sided iLes Statues dArgile de la Caverne dur… … 5 Eo c<uo CO lO •a n n be ^. 3O 3< 3 O s 3 PALAEOLITHIC ART 45 bone implement from Saint Marcel (Indre). All four sidesare engraved. It looks like a double chisel, or it maypossibly have been a tatooing instrument* (Fig. 55).Laugerie Basse has yielded several interesting examples,among the…

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