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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 92

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n, has been described as a chefdoeiivre of Palaolithic art. It is all the more remarkablefrom the fact that the engraving although covering bothsides of a piece of an antler, yet forms one continuouspicture. On one side is the Reindeer, most realistically PAL.EOLITHIC ART 55 drawn, browsing as it… … Fig. 70.—Reindeer engraved on schist. Laugerie Basse. engraving on schist from Laugerie Basse shows the maleanimal following a female, a piece often wrongly described asle Combat de Rennes^ (Fig- 7o)- The same stationsupplies a charming littlesketch, also on stone, of areindeer looking back^…

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