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 468
cientiouswork on all the mobile utensils of daily life and of the chase,apart from the caverns ? The superposition of one drawing uponanother, which is especially characteristic of this cavern, does notseem to strengthen the religious interpretation. It would appear that the love of art for arts… … Fig. 226. Plan showing the grouping of bison, horses, red deer, and wild boar, in thepolychrome paintings on the ceiling of Altamira. After Breuil. There is no evidence that numbers of people entered these cav-erns. If this had been the case there would be many more ex-amples of inartistic work…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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