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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 445

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rawn by Erwin S. Christman. One-third actual size. (Compare PI. VII.) an analysis of which led Berthelot, the chemist, to conclude thatan animal fat was used for lighting purposes. Like most otherimplements, this lamp is decorated—in this instance by an en- 402 MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE graving of… … Fig. 204. Entrance to the cavern of La Pasiega, not far from Castillo. The seated figure with the staff is M. lAbbe Henri Breuil, the present leader in the study of Upper Palaeolithic art. Photograph by N. C. Nelson. In the great cavern of Castillo,* at Puente-Viesgo, discoveredin 1903 by Alcalde…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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