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
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