Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1916)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 441
GE on the walls, and a few pieces of flint have been discovered. Inno other cavern, perhaps, is there a greater sense of mysteryas to the influence, whether religious, magical, or artistic, whichimpelled men to seek out and enter these dangerous passages,the slippery rocks illumined at best by a… … Fig. 206. Herd of horses engraved on a small slab of stone, found in the grotto of Chaf-faud, Vienne, France. After Cartailhac. This impressionistic grouping and perspec-tive is very exceptional in Palaeolithic design. About nine-tenths actual size. almost every surface favorably prepared by the…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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