Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 365
late Aurignacian. The spread of theseidols, which are altogether characteristic of the earlier period ofthe Upper Palaeolithic, is traced eastward to Willendorf, Aus-tria, and to Briinn, Moravia. Breuils great contention is a certain similarity to northAfrican art, which would seem to agree with… … Fig. 159. Statuette inlimestone from the grottoof Willendorf, Lower Aus-tria, attributed to the lateAurignacian. This fe-male figurine, possibly anidol and generally knownas the Venus of Willen-dorf, is about four andone-half inches in height.After Szombathi. THE BIRTH OF ART 323 clay which are…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
Internet Archive · Wellesley College Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
