Anthropology and the classics : six lectures delivered before the University of Oxford . Fig. 4. PRIMITIVE PICTOGRAPHY 17 period, which in turn had been preceded by a hiero-glyphic system ? The artistic achievements of the men of theReindeer Period attained such a high level that //in. Fig. 5. even such a conclusion could hardly excite their portrayal of animal forms—in their powerof seizing the characteristic attitude of the creaturerepresented—they show themselves on a level withthose later Minoan artists of prehistoric Crete andGreece who produced such master-pieces as the wild

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Anthropology and the classics : six lectures delivered before the University of Oxford . Fig. 4. PRIMITIVE PICTOGRAPHY 17 period, which in turn had been preceded by a hiero-glyphic system ? The artistic achievements of the men of theReindeer Period attained such a high level that //in. Fig. 5. even such a conclusion could hardly excite their portrayal of animal forms—in their powerof seizing the characteristic attitude of the creaturerepresented—they show themselves on a level withthose later Minoan artists of prehistoric Crete andGreece who produced such master-pieces as the wild goat and kids orthe bull-hunt on the Vaphio now know that the Minoan racehad also a highly developed form oflinear script. Might not their remotepredecessors on European soil haveevolved the same ? Fig. 6. That they had sufficient intellectual capacityto evolve a system of writing, can hardly be were, no doubt, some inferior elements amongthe population of the Reindeer Period. It is possiblethat certain low cranial types of the Neanderthalclass may have survived till late Pleistocene times;

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