An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 55.—Engraving on Marsoulas. 2. S. Marcel.(Much reduced.) Fig. 56.—Spiral designs engraved on reindeerhorn. Arudy (B. Pyrenees). It was in the delineation of animal forms that thePalaeolithic artist chiefly delighted and was most success-ful. This especially applies to the larger animals which hehunted, and on which his subsistence so much are so numerous and varied as to afford considerableknowledge of the fauna of the time. ^ VAnthropologie, xiii., p. 155, Fig. 5. ^ Girod and Massenat, Les Stations de VAge du Renne
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 55.—Engraving on Marsoulas. 2. S. Marcel.(Much reduced.) Fig. 56.—Spiral designs engraved on reindeerhorn. Arudy (B. Pyrenees). It was in the delineation of animal forms that thePalaeolithic artist chiefly delighted and was most success-ful. This especially applies to the larger animals which hehunted, and on which his subsistence so much are so numerous and varied as to afford considerableknowledge of the fauna of the time. ^ VAnthropologie, xiii., p. 155, Fig. 5. ^ Girod and Massenat, Les Stations de VAge du Renne dans lesvallees de la Vezere et de la Coreze, Plates VI, VII, IX, LAnthrop., vi., Figs. 2, 5 (p. 4), 6 (p. 5). 46 PREHISTORIC ART The earliest discovery of this kind was made in 1834 byM. Bouillet, a notary of Charroux, in the Grotte de Chaffaudin the Charente Valley (Vienne). It is an engraving ofDeer on bone (Fig. 57). This cave was not further ex-plored until thirty years later, in 1865, when M. Gaillard. Fig. 57.—Hinds engraved on cannon-bone of reindeer. Chaffaud.(From Cav. Reg. Cantab.) (Two-thirds size.) undertook its excavation. Among his discoveries was asmall engraved stone slab on which are sketched in outlinetwo rows of horses, one above the other. Only the headsand legs are drawn, the latter reaching to horizontal linesrepresenting the ground^ (FJ^^- 58). The extraordinary number of horsesbones found at So-lutre show hownumerous this ani-mal must have beenat that period, andthe many engrav-ings of it on boneand horn point tothe same conclu-sion. The oxs vertebra with a seal in champleve on oneside, already referred to (see Fig. 20), has engraved onthe opposite side a horses head (Fig. 59). The horse isoften engraved on the so-called Batons de Commande- LAnthrop., xiv., p. 180. 2 Piette, op. ciL, Plate LXXXI, Fig. 2.
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