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 365
um. With due regard foranalogies, it would rather appear probable that this archaicsculpture was autochthonous. 324 MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE The art of engraving and drawing was almost certainlyautochthonous, because we trace it from its most rudimentarybeginnings. This northern art developed from… … Fig. 161. Superposed engravings of various mammals on a slab of slate found in theGrotte du Trilobite, Yonne, France. In detail are seen the profiles of two woolly rhi-noceroses superposed on the rump of a mammoth with tail upturned. After Breuil. the presence all over western Europe of the tundra…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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