An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . MURAL DECORATION OF CAVES 115 semblance to alabaster figures discovered by M. Siret, andattributed by him to the older Neolithic period. AbbeBreuil however considers it probable that the great majorityof these designs are of Magdalenian age, but were madeby the so-called Azilians (Fig. 151). These may havebeen displaced by Neolithic invaders coming from theeast by the Mediterranean, resulting in some of them goingnorth and there influencing the style of decoration of theCantabrian and French caves, being responsible for someof the non-zoomorphi
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . MURAL DECORATION OF CAVES 115 semblance to alabaster figures discovered by M. Siret, andattributed by him to the older Neolithic period. AbbeBreuil however considers it probable that the great majorityof these designs are of Magdalenian age, but were madeby the so-called Azilians (Fig. 151). These may havebeen displaced by Neolithic invaders coming from theeast by the Mediterranean, resulting in some of them goingnorth and there influencing the style of decoration of theCantabrian and French caves, being responsible for someof the non-zoomorphic designs, and possibly reaching evenas far as Scotland ; others taking refuge across the sea in. Fig. 151.—Azilian designs at Batuecas (Salamanca), recalling galets coloris oiMas dAzil and the petroglyphs of Andalusia. North Africa may have reached the Sudan, reappearing-there in the very similar schematic decorations on rocksat Air recently described by M. F. de Zeltner.^ 6. CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THE DRAWINGS WERE MADE. A brief account has now been given of the most im-portant discoveries yet made of engravings and paintingson the walls of caves and rock shelters and exposed the least remarkable fact regarding them is that most 1 rAntJirop., xxni. (1912), Figs. 21-4, pp. 22-5 ; xxiv. (1913), , Figs. 1-5. Jievtie ArcheoL, y.\{i()i2), T^. 93. In a cave at (7/^a«,and in the island of Oronsay, harpoons of very similar character to theAzilian have been found : cf. Froc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xxix., p. 410. 8 * ii6 PREHISTORIC ART
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