Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1915)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 503
not sufficient towarrant any theory connecting the signs on the painted pebblesof the Azilians with the alphabetic characters of the oldest knownsystems of writing.3 Piette attempted to explain some of theexceedingly crude designs on these pebbles as a system of nota-tion, others as pictographs and… … Fig. 248. Azilian galels colories, flat, painted pebbles, from the type station of Mas dAzil. After Piette. FERE-EN-TARDENOIS 465 oning, writing, and the symbols of the sun were learned andtaught. The very wide distribution of these symbolic pebblesand the painting of similar designs on the walls…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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