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Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1916)

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 362

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smalltributary of the Vezere, was found an archaic Aurignacian out-line of the bison deeply incised on the limestone walls. Thegrotto of Gargas,* Hautes-Pyrenees,^ is one of the most fa-mous stations; it w^as entered in closing Mousterian times andwas occupied at intervals during the Aurignacian… … Fig. 164. Section of the rock shelter of Laussel, showing the superposed industriallayers from Acheulean to Solutrean times. After Lalanne. a great chimney, so that this is one of the true cavern habitations.The drawings along the walls of the cave include a large numberof figures in a very unequal…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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