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Men of the old stone age : their environment, life and art (1915)

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 350

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RTH OF ART 319 at Marsoulas, Haute-Garonne, there are two hearths, one lateAurignacian, the other late Magdalenian; the grotto was thenclosed until recent times. The grotto of Niaux, on the Ariege,which contains fine examples of drawings of middle Magdale-nian times at a distance of 1,800 feet from… … Fig. 157. The woolly rhinoceros, painted in red ochre with shading and partial rep-resentation of the hair, in the cavern of Font-de-Gaume, Dordogne. Attributed byBreuil to the late Aurignacian. Possibly Magdalenian. After Breuil. closing up of the entrance, which was rediscovered only aboutthirty…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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