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 460
2 p 1-i 3*3 03 3s J POLYCHROME PAINTING 415 The early stages of this art are seen in the cavern of Marsoulas.and its height is reached in the mural frescos of Font-de-Gaumeand in the ceiling of Altamira, the latter still in a perfect andbrilliant state of preservation. To prepare the colors, ochre… … Fig. 219. Entrance on the right to the grotto leading to the great cavern of Font-de-Gaume on the Beune. Photograph by N. C. Nelson. was carried in ornamented cases made from the lower-limb bonesof the reindeer, and such tubes still containing the ochre havebeen found in the Magdalenian hearths;…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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