. Maryland geological survey . only by the association of flint implements with mammoth bones,but also by the artistic efforts of Palaeolithic man himself who has leftus characteristic sketches of the beast. These have been found on thewalls of caves which contained human remains or implements, or theywere graven on pieces of reindeer antler or on bits of the tusks them-selves. The accompanying plate is from a photograph of one of theseancient engravings made upon a fragment of a tusk and found at LaMadelaine in France. Figure two on this plate is from a photograph ofa painting by the late Cha
. Maryland geological survey . only by the association of flint implements with mammoth bones,but also by the artistic efforts of Palaeolithic man himself who has leftus characteristic sketches of the beast. These have been found on thewalls of caves which contained human remains or implements, or theywere graven on pieces of reindeer antler or on bits of the tusks them-selves. The accompanying plate is from a photograph of one of theseancient engravings made upon a fragment of a tusk and found at LaMadelaine in France. Figure two on this plate is from a photograph ofa painting by the late Charles Wilson Peale, of Baltimore, and shows aparty of workmen engaged in digging out the remains of a mastodonunder his direction, and probably represents the actual scene which issupposed to have been near Newburgh, 1ST. Y. 14 The largest recorded tooth is that from Alameda, California, noted by O. Hovey, measuring 13 by 15 inches and weighing 21 pounds. MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PLIOCENE AND PLEISTOCENE, PLATE Fig. i.—mammoth engraved on fragment of tusk by paleolithic man (XA). (Lartet, Reliquicc A quit an.)
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