. Popular science monthly. relief by the projecting rock. Such fortuitous objectsas these might have been that which originally sensitized the humanimagination till it was able to catch and perpetuate a likeness to familiaror cherished forms. With the gradual perfection of the likeness bothwith and without fortuitous assistance the fine arts were born. Xothing quite the equal of paleolithic cave art has since appearedamong any people in the hunting and fishing stage of culture; for itmust be remembered that domestication of animals and the arts ofagriculture were neolithic innovations; so was
. Popular science monthly. relief by the projecting rock. Such fortuitous objectsas these might have been that which originally sensitized the humanimagination till it was able to catch and perpetuate a likeness to familiaror cherished forms. With the gradual perfection of the likeness bothwith and without fortuitous assistance the fine arts were born. Xothing quite the equal of paleolithic cave art has since appearedamong any people in the hunting and fishing stage of culture; for itmust be remembered that domestication of animals and the arts ofagriculture were neolithic innovations; so was the ceramic art. It seems almost a pity that this artistically inclined old race wasnot familiar with the plastic possibilities of clay. What exquisitefigures of their favorite game animals they might have left to us, bothin the round and in painted forms. Perhaps they did model in so the objects were not properly tempered and either poorly fired ornot fired at all and have since completely crumbled away. Only one. ^M^^mm^0^ Fig. 11. Wounded Bison, in part engraved and in part painted (red) ; to theright, the head of a horse incomplete; below, six claviform figures. Pindal (Asturias).After Alcalde del Rio, Breuil and Sierra. Les cavernes de la region Cantabrique(Espagne). 22 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY instance of paleolithic modeling in clay has thus far come to light, thediscovery being made only last October in the newly found (July 20)cavern of Tuc dAudoubert. I visited this cavern only five days afterits discovery by Count Begouen and his sons, who in continuing theirresearches less than three months later came upon two clay figures ofthe bison, a female 61 centimeters long followed by a male 63 centi-meters in length. These figures were never wholly separated from thematrix out of which they were so deftly fashioned. They seem to standout of the sloping clay talus that flanks a fallen rock (Figs. 7 and 8).They are far removed from any known entrance to the cave an
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