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Men of the old stone age : their environment, life and art (1916)

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, Scribner · leaf 355

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m. With due regard foranalogies, it would rather appear probable that this archaicsculpture was autochthonous. S24 MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE The art of engraving and drawing was almost certainlyautochthonous, because we trace it from its most rudimentary.beginnings. This northern art developed from… … Fig. 161. Superposed engravings of various mammals on a slab of slate found in theGrottc du Trilobite, Vonne, France. In detail are seen the profiles of two woolly rhi-noceroses superposed on the rump of a mammoth with tail upturned. After Breuil. the presence all over western Europe of the tundra…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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