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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 356

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st a wall surface or outlinedwith color, accompanied by primitive attempts at linear drawingin color and painted groupings ; for example, the crude outlines ofthe bison in the grotto of Castillo are of Aurignacian age, also the THE BIRTH OF ART 325 black linear designs of the deer and of the ibex… … Fig. 162. Silhouettes of complete and of partly mutilated hands from the wallsof the grotto of Gargas in the Pyrenees. After Breuil. cattle in Castillo. Breuil also attributes to Aurignacian timesthe spirited figure of the woolly rhinoceros in red ochre in thecave of Font-de-Gaume, as well as the…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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