Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935. [from old catalog] · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 359
strata which covered and partly concealed them. In other instances we can date a drawing in a cavern by theperiod at which the opening was closed ; for example, the cave ofLa Mouthe, Dordogne, was closed in by a Magdalenian layer offlints which touched the roof and firmly sealed up the… … Fig. 156. Primitive painted outlines of animals from the cavern walls of Font-dc-Gaumc,Dordogne, attributed by Breuil to the early Aurignacian. The outlines represent thehorse, ibex, cave-bear, wild cattle, and reindeer. After Breuil. with late Aurignacian flints and with the remains of the…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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