Anthropology and the classics : six lectures delivered before the University of Oxford . senthats. A remarkable group of three alphabetiformsigns occurs on a fragment of reindeer-horn discoveredby M. Piette in the Cave of One of theseshows a great resemblance to an A or Aleph. A har-poon of reindeer-horn, again, from La Madeleine,4shows a group of eight linear signs, among whichwe may detect, however, several repetitions. In the face of these and similar examples, are weto conclude with the late M. Piette5 that there wasa regular alphabetic script during the Pleistocene 1 E. Cartailh
Anthropology and the classics : six lectures delivered before the University of Oxford . senthats. A remarkable group of three alphabetiformsigns occurs on a fragment of reindeer-horn discoveredby M. Piette in the Cave of One of theseshows a great resemblance to an A or Aleph. A har-poon of reindeer-horn, again, from La Madeleine,4shows a group of eight linear signs, among whichwe may detect, however, several repetitions. In the face of these and similar examples, are weto conclude with the late M. Piette5 that there wasa regular alphabetic script during the Pleistocene 1 E. Cartailhac et lAbbe H. Breuil, Les peintures etgravures murales des Cavernes Pyreneennes, II. , xvi (1905), pp. 431 seqq. Fig. 4 is taken fromp. 438, Fig. 8. 2 Alcalde del Rio, Las Pinturas y Grabados de las Cavernasprehistoricas de la Provincia de Santander, 1906. Fig. 5 is takenfrom Anthropologic, xvii (1906), p. 145, Fig. 3. 3 E. Piette, Les Ecritures de lAge glyptique. Anthropologic,xvi, p. 8, Fig. 9. 4 Reliquiae Aquitanicae, B, PI. XXVI, Fig. 10. 5 Op. cit., p. Fig. 4. PRIMITIVE PICTOGRAPHY 17 period, which in turn had been preceded by a hiero-glyphic system ? The artistic achievements of the men of theReindeer Period attained such a high level that //in
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