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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 522

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denotes rather an Asiatic andSiberian origin. The decorative designs of these Baltic peoples were verydifferent from those of the Cro-Magnons in Magdalenian times, THE NEW RACES 487 and are not schematic; the conception of the animal figures, al-though naturalistic, is as crude as that of the early… … Fig. 261. Implements and decorations showing the conventional and crude animaldesigns of the art of the Baltic, from Maglemose, Denmark. After Reinecke andObermaier. The implements include bone harpoons, fish-hooks, horn chisels, awls,spear points, and smoothers. About one-fifth actual size. more…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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