Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 113
t signifi- 70 MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE cant departure is that of the mastodon, which is believed tohave lingered in north Africa and which certainly survived inAmerica into very late Pleistocene times. The animal life ofwestern Europe, like the plant life, has lost one part of itsPliocene aspect… … Fig. 28. The sabre-tooth tiger {Machcerodus), which survives from the Upper Plioceneand is widely distributed over western Europe until the Middle Pleistocene. Aftera painting by Charles R. Knight, in the American Museum of Natural History. more hardy animals and plants which had been evolving for…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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