Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 371
approach the shelter of the cliff, so thatthe Magdalenian flint workers were directly beneath the over-hanging rock shelter, which opened outward toward the sun. In the upper Aurignacian layer Lalanne discovered two bas-reliefs representing the figures of a man and of a woman. The … Fig. 165. Bas-relief of a woman with adrinking horn, sculptured on the faceof a boulder within the shelter of Laus-sel, and attributed to the late Aurig-nacian. After Lalanne. About one-eighth actual size. THE BIRTH OF ART 320 bas-relief of the woman represents a nude figure holding thehorn of a…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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