Men of the old stone age : their environment, life and art (1915)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 427
resented the last prolongation of the dying Quaternary art. It is fortunate that the mantle of Piette fell upon a man ofthe artistic genius and appreciation of Breuil, to whom chieflywe owe our clear understanding of the chronological developmentof Upper Palaeolithic art. In the accompanying table… … Fig. 196. Geographic distribution of the more important Palaeolithic art stations ofDordogne, the Pyrenees, and the Cantabrian Mountains. After Ereuil and Obermaier. We are far from 1880, observes Cartailhac,21 when the dis-covery by Sautuola of the paintings on the roof of the cavern ofAltamira…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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