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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 407

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was the giant Elasmothere; it would seem very unhkely thatthis animal was present in Magdalenian times, for it certainlywould have attracted the attention of the artists. Neither havewe any positive artistic records of the wild ass, or kiang, althoughcertain of the drawings in the grottos of Niaux… … Fig. i86. Steppe mammals from the steppes and deserts of Asia, which invaded westernEurope in Upper Palaeolithic times; the first arrivals appearing during the cold, dryperiod of late Acheulean times, becoming more numerous in the dry period of Aurig-nacian and Solutrean times, and completely…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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