Anthropology and the classics : six lectures delivered before the University of Oxford . Fig. Fig. 19. I PRIMITIVE PICTOGRAPHY 39 between 7,000 and 8,000 feet about the Laghidelle Maraviglie, in the heart of Monte Morerecently a still more extensive series has been dis-covered by Mr. Clarence Bicknell, cut like the othersin the glaciated schist rocks and at a similar loftyelevation in the neighbouring Val di have myself visited a more outlying group atOreo Feglino3 in the Finalese, only a few miles fromthe Ligurian coast. These figures, of which examples are given inF
Anthropology and the classics : six lectures delivered before the University of Oxford . Fig. Fig. 19. I PRIMITIVE PICTOGRAPHY 39 between 7,000 and 8,000 feet about the Laghidelle Maraviglie, in the heart of Monte Morerecently a still more extensive series has been dis-covered by Mr. Clarence Bicknell, cut like the othersin the glaciated schist rocks and at a similar loftyelevation in the neighbouring Val di have myself visited a more outlying group atOreo Feglino3 in the Finalese, only a few miles fromthe Ligurian coast. These figures, of which examples are given inFigs. 19 and 20, represent oxen, often engaged inploughing, and men in various positions, sometimesbrandishing weapons and apparently signalling, anda variety of arms, implements, and other the weapons, the halberds and daggers arecharacteristic of the earlier part of the Bronze Age,4and it is noteworthy that the sword which charac-terized the later phase of that culture is entirelyabsent. The figures of the oxen ploughing aredepicted as if seen from above—a circumstanceexplaine
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