Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1916)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 356
act that details which in later drawingsare well observed are here overlooked; the profile drawings ofanimals, with one fore leg and one hind leg represented, are quiteUke those of children. Progress toward a true representation of animal form indrawing begins very early; even in middle Aurignacian… … traced back to early Aurignacian times. While the Palaeolithicartists early in the Aurignacian had obtained a certain facilityin plastic work, their drawings, which are solely contours—somewhat imperfect and deeply engraved Hues—show a grad-ual development. The degree of skill attainedin late…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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