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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 474

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graving reliefs, very simply done, finein execution, with sure and firm outlines of the bison, the favoritesubject as in all other caverns; horses fairly well executed andof the same steppe type as those in the near-by cavern of MAGDALENIAN SCULPTURE 429 Niaux; one superbly engraved contour of the… … Fig. 232. Head of a reindeer deeply incised or engraved in the limestone wall of thecavern of Tuc dAudoubert. After Begouen. and black color. Shortly afterward a great discovery was madein this cavern; it is described as follows by the Comte de Be-gouen :* To-day I am happy to give you excellent…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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