An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . nd made copies of the drawings. Amongst theanimals represented are the bison, horse, reindeer, andmammoth. All are drawn in profile. Some are crudeand ill-proportioned, but there is no difficulty in recognizingthe animal intended. One of the best is of a reindeer, thehead and neck being shaded to show the hair (Fig. 99).Of the inanimate designs one is a rectangular drawing, and ^ Bull. Soc. (TAnthrop., Paris (1897), p. 302, Figs. 1-4; cf. alsoibid., 1901 and 1903, p. 191, and Revue Scientifujtie (1901), p. Soc. dAnthrop., Paris (1903
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . nd made copies of the drawings. Amongst theanimals represented are the bison, horse, reindeer, andmammoth. All are drawn in profile. Some are crudeand ill-proportioned, but there is no difficulty in recognizingthe animal intended. One of the best is of a reindeer, thehead and neck being shaded to show the hair (Fig. 99).Of the inanimate designs one is a rectangular drawing, and ^ Bull. Soc. (TAnthrop., Paris (1897), p. 302, Figs. 1-4; cf. alsoibid., 1901 and 1903, p. 191, and Revue Scientifujtie (1901), p. Soc. dAnthrop., Paris (1903), p. 193. MURAL DECORATION OF CAVES 75 is supposed to represent a hut ; it belongs in fact to that tecti-form class of designs found, as we shall see, in so many ofthe caves. This cave is about two hundred and seventyyards long. The drawings must all have been executedby artificial light, for the first to be noticed is no less than120 yards from the entrance : they are thence distributedover the walls for a distance of about forty-five YiQ, 99.—La Monthe. Engraving of reindeer on wall of the cave. (From Cav. dAltamira.) Comba7elles. — In this cave, about two miles from LesEyzies, the drawings are even more remote from the lightof day, for none are met with until the cave—which is ofthe nature of a long narrow gallery—is penetrated for adistance of 150 yards. Engraved figures of animals, vary-ing in size from a few inches to over a yard in length, ex-tend for a distance of 125 yards, nearly in fact to the endof the cave. The only use of colour is to emphasizeoccasionally the engraved lines with a black band. Morethan a hundred figures have been counted. Considerablymore than half of these are of animals with the entire bodyshown, the rest are of heads only. Among the formerare the bison, horse, reindeer, bear (Fig. 100), and mam-moth ; the latter include the wolf (Fig. loi) but are princi- 1^ PREHISTORIC ART pally of the horse. How much the discoverers, MM,Capit
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