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 363
ere is, however,no evidence of the survival of the Grimaldi race, and we maysafely attribute this entire art development to the Cro-Magnons. Fig. 158. Femalefigurine carved incrystalline talc,discovered at theGrottes de Grimaldi,near Mentone.This figurine, pos-sibly modelledafter one of theGrimaldi… … The creative spirit manifested itself along many differentlines. In the fashioning of bone in early Aurignacian times therebegins a new industry capable of great possibilities; out of com-binations of lines there develop geometric figures; in animal fig-ures there is an attempt at simple symmetric…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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