Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . igure h. Thefemale figiires are somewhat more realistic and are readily distin-guished by skirts reaching to the knees and hj pendent the presence of feminine skirts gives to the scene a modern air,the art as a whole is more closely related to the paleolithic than tothat of any succeeding epoch. The explorations of French caverns have more than kept pace withthose in Spain. Confining ourselves chiefly to caverns with muraldecorations those of the Dordogne are perhaps the most important,the largest group being
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . igure h. Thefemale figiires are somewhat more realistic and are readily distin-guished by skirts reaching to the knees and hj pendent the presence of feminine skirts gives to the scene a modern air,the art as a whole is more closely related to the paleolithic than tothat of any succeeding epoch. The explorations of French caverns have more than kept pace withthose in Spain. Confining ourselves chiefly to caverns with muraldecorations those of the Dordogne are perhaps the most important,the largest group being in the Vezere Valley. The calcareous forma-tion, cleft by the Vezere and its tributaries, is composed of Cretaceousbeds approximately horizontal and of varying degrees of hardness(pi. 7) ; so that overhanging rocks often shelter horizontal galleriesand niches. Again subterranean streams have left meandering cav-erns, some of them several hundred meters in length. These as well <^ This province has a very dry climate. Smithsonian Report, I 909.—MacCurdy Plate Fig. a. Red Fresco Representing a Stag in the Act of Rising (.the ColorHAS Disappeared from the Dotted Portions). Rock Shelter of CalapataAT Gretas (Lower Aragon). After Breuil and Cabre Aguila, Lanthr.,20, 1909.
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