Inside Out Library · Explore

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

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, Scribner · leaf 439

An illustration from Men of the old stone age : their environment, life and art, 1916, leaf 439
more careful observation. In the 406 MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE great series of bison at Font-de-Gaume the entire animal issketched in with these finely engraved lines, as brought outthrough the wonderfully close observation and studies of Breuil.This is quite similar to the practice of the modern… … Fig. 208. Stag and salmon engraved on an antler, from Lorthet, Hautes-Pyrenees. After Piette. This design is believed to represent a herd ofstag crossing a stream, one of the very rare Palaeolithic attempts atcomposition. of Tuc dAudoubert (Fig. 232), a complete design in itself, an-other seen in…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

Internet Archive · University of Toronto, Robarts Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Men of the old stone age : their environment, life and art

More like this