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 568
ion of these designs of human or animal figures, were it not for the exist-ence of gradations in conventionalization from the naturalistic design tothe final geometric scheme. With these, arranged in a regular manner,there occur further a great number of ramiform, pectiniform,… … Fig. 273. Detail from the Late Palaeolithic designs painted on the sides of two naturalrecesses in the rock shelter of Alpera. After Obermaier. doubtless referring to the paintings of Canchal de las Cabras in LasBatuecas. Slight infiltrations of the same art have been recognized in northernSpain at…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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