Primitive men with spears hunting a glyptodon, a large, armored mammal of the family Glyptodontidae, related to the armadillo. Riesengurteltier. Glyptodon is Greek for grooved or carved tooth. Colour printed illustration by Heinrich Harder from Wilhelm Bolsche’s Tiere der Urwelt (Animals of the Prehistoric World), Reichardt Cocoa company, Hamburg, 1908. Heinrich Harder (1858-1935) was a German landscape artist and book illustrator.

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