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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 359

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m. With due regard foranalogies, it would rather appear probable that this archaicsculpture was autochthonous. 324 MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE The art of engraving and drawing was almost certainly-autochthonous, because we trace it from its most rudimentarybeginnings. This northern art developed from… … Fig. 161. Superposed engravings of various mammals on a slab of slate found in theGrotte du Trilobite, Yonne, France. In detail are seen the profiles of two woolly rhi-noceroses superposed on the rump of a mammoth with tail upturned. After Breuil. the presence all over western Europe of the tundra…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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