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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 445

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mely small passage, so narrow as barely to admit the athleticand determined artist explorer, the Abbe Breuil. Here, as inFont-de-Gaume and other caverns, is one of the greatest myster-ies of the cave art, namely, that these terminal and dangerousdiverticules finals were wrought with some of the… … Fig. 215. Finely engraved outlines of the Celtic horse and of the reindeer, in the Grottede la Mairie, near Teyjat, Dordogne. After Capitan and Breuil. dotted with red or hatched in close parallel lines. On a longhorizontal panel are seen many bison in red, and one observeshere a finely drawn pair…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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