An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 229.—Stone at the s5^^^# Fig. 230.—Stone on north side of Designs at New Grange. (After Coffey.) 200 PREHISTORIC ART They have been closely studied and finely illustrated byMr. G. Coffey.^ There has been much speculation as totheir meaning. Some have seen in them evidence of sunworship to which view support is lent by the sun discs engraved on stones in the neiohbourino- tumulus of derive them from Mycensean designs, encouragedby the similarity of the interior of New Grange to Mycensean tombs. Thelate
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 229.—Stone at the s5^^^# Fig. 230.—Stone on north side of Designs at New Grange. (After Coffey.) 200 PREHISTORIC ART They have been closely studied and finely illustrated byMr. G. Coffey.^ There has been much speculation as totheir meaning. Some have seen in them evidence of sunworship to which view support is lent by the sun discs engraved on stones in the neiohbourino- tumulus of derive them from Mycensean designs, encouragedby the similarity of the interior of New Grange to Mycensean tombs. Thelatest view is that of who discoversin these designs a degener-ate form of the supposedidol of the Neolithic Dechelette has ex-pounded his theory in afull and elaborate manner,drawing illustrations insupport of it from a greatvariety of sources on theContinent. His theoryshortly appears to amountto this, viz. that the designs9 ? ? . f , ? . ?^ . 0 . \2 Inches are degenerate copies of Fig. design on stone at Clover ^^e humau features whichHill, C
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