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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 455

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autifully done in advancedMagdalenian style, deep incisions representing the larger out-lines and liner incisions representing the hair; here the outlinesare also traced in color, and there are several masks or grotesquesof the human face; these last are treated with a total disregardof the truth… … PLAN Dt LA GROTTE OE FONTDEGAUME re/eve parleD:CAPITAN. Fig. 220. Map of the cavern of Font-de-Gaume. showing the Rubicon, the Grande Galerie des Fresques, in which the chief polychrome paintings are found, and the Diveriicule final. After Capitan. to extend over the surface with gradations of…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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