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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 400

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otwear, makers of ornaments, engravers, sculptorsin wood, bone, ivory, and stone, and artists with color and brush.In their artistic work, at least, these people were animated witha compelling sense of truth, and we cannot deny them a strongappreciation of beauty. It is probable that a sense of… … Pl. VII. Cro-Magnon man in the cavern of Font-de-Gaume, Dordogne, restored in theact cf drawing the outlines of one of the bisons on the wall of the Galerie des Fresques.Drawn under the direction of the author by Charles R. Knight. MAGDALENIAN CULTURE 359 outcome of a purely artistic impulse are…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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