. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. rig. HAMMERSTONES. (a) White jaspery flint, Ohio. Cat. No. 1-31!, ^ natural size. (6) Quartzite, pittefl, New York. No. C60i?, Ji natural sizi'. ably compared to the art of handling the pencil in drawing, the brush in painting, or the chisel in sculpture. It re(]uires even a higher degree of manipulation than either of these. It involves a combina- tion of intellectual understanding derived from a teacher, and a man-
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. rig. HAMMERSTONES. (a) White jaspery flint, Ohio. Cat. No. 1-31!, ^ natural size. (6) Quartzite, pittefl, New York. No. C60i?, Ji natural sizi'. ably compared to the art of handling the pencil in drawing, the brush in painting, or the chisel in sculpture. It re(]uires even a higher degree of manipulation than either of these. It involves a combina- tion of intellectual understanding derived from a teacher, and a man- ual dexterity of the hand obtained only by long practice. The Paleolithic period showed the origin, the very beginning, of art so far as can be determined from our present knowledge of man. The different manifestations of art in the succeeding, the Neolithic, period opens anew the discussion of its origin. A hiatus has been declared between the culture of the two periods, and the differences just described are supposed to represent the renaissance of art in the Neolithic period. Western Europe may have been the cradle of art for the world. The fine art of the Paleolithic period originated there. In the passage to the Neolithic period some branches died out or were lost; new ones were employed, whether invented or. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary. Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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