An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . la we may now turn. 5. SPANISH ROCK PAINTINGS. Paintings on rock surfaces have recently been dis-covered in many places in Central and Eastern of them are of peculiar interest because they include ^ LAnthrop., xxiii. (1912), p. 27. ^Les Cav. de la Reg. Cantabriqiie (1912), Figs. 32-5 and PlatesXXV and XXVL ^LAnthropologie, xxiii. (1912), p. 15, and La Pasiega, a FuenieViesgos (Santander, Espagne), par H. Breuil, H. Obermaier, and Alcaldedel Rio (1913). I lO PREHISTORIC ART figures of the human body so seldom seen in the Frenchcaves,
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . la we may now turn. 5. SPANISH ROCK PAINTINGS. Paintings on rock surfaces have recently been dis-covered in many places in Central and Eastern of them are of peculiar interest because they include ^ LAnthrop., xxiii. (1912), p. 27. ^Les Cav. de la Reg. Cantabriqiie (1912), Figs. 32-5 and PlatesXXV and XXVL ^LAnthropologie, xxiii. (1912), p. 15, and La Pasiega, a FuenieViesgos (Santander, Espagne), par H. Breuil, H. Obermaier, and Alcaldedel Rio (1913). I lO PREHISTORIC ART figures of the human body so seldom seen in the Frenchcaves, where also they are so crudely drawn. At Tejeranear the Calapata, a tributary of the Ebro, paintings of ani-mals, some in red, others in black, are seen in a cave andon exposed The stag, goat, bull, and ibex are de-picted, some of the figures being well drawn and life-like. CoguL—Near the village of Cogul, in the province ofLerida (Catalonia) are a series of frescoes on the exposedrocks. In one a man is shown attacking a bison. Another. Fig. 146.— Cogul. Figures painted in black and red, on rock surface. is composed of a group of animals, a stag with four deeraround him, a bull and an eland. The colour in all casesis red. The most interesting of these frescoes is composedof a group of ten human figures—nine women and oneman—arranged in a row, the man in the middle with fivewomen on one side, and four on the other. Black pre-dominates in the colouring, though a certain amount ofred is introduced. No facial features are shown. Themans body is little more than a series of lines with a dotfr)r the head. His feet are indicated, and ornamental ap- MURAL DECORATION OF CAVES iil pendages at the knees. The heads of the women aresimply sub-triangular spots. Their bodies are narrowwaisted, with skirts reaching to the knees, and a kind ofmantle over the shoulders. The attitudes, though some-what chaotic, are suggestive of a dance ^ i^^S- H^)- About three miles from the town
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