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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 359

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aussel is atypical shelter, first sought in Acheulean times, revisited inMousterian times, then again in middle or late Aurignacian, inSolutrean, and finally in Magdalenian times. As these succes-sive layers rise they approach the shelter of the cliff, so thatthe Magdalenian flint workers were… … Fig. 165. Bas-relief of a woman with adrinking horn, sculptured on the faceof a boulder within the shelter of Laus-sel, and attributed to the late Aurig-nacian. After Lalanne. About one-eighth actual size. THE BIRTH OF ART 329 bas-relief of the woman represents a nude figure holding thehorn of a…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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