An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . is aiming at the animalsfacing him : he also carries a spare arrow in his belt. Norepresentation of the bow has yet been discovered inPalaeolithic art in the Cantabrian caves, or north of thePyrenees.^ Much more numerous and interesting paintings of human beings were discoveredtowards the end of the year 1910by M. Pascual Serrano, aboutthree miles north of Alpera, atthe foot of the Sierra Chinchilla,in the south-east of the Penin-sula. Here at the back of asmall shelter, known by the nameof Cueva de la Vieja, are manypaintings in red and brown,
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . is aiming at the animalsfacing him : he also carries a spare arrow in his belt. Norepresentation of the bow has yet been discovered inPalaeolithic art in the Cantabrian caves, or north of thePyrenees.^ Much more numerous and interesting paintings of human beings were discoveredtowards the end of the year 1910by M. Pascual Serrano, aboutthree miles north of Alpera, atthe foot of the Sierra Chinchilla,in the south-east of the Penin-sula. Here at the back of asmall shelter, known by the nameof Cueva de la Vieja, are manypaintings in red and brown, ona sort of frieze some twelve yardslong. A second shelter close by—Cueva del Oueso—was alsosimilarly adorned, but the paint-ings here have suffered muchfrom the crumbling away of therock surface. A hundred andFig. i^^.^Aipcra. Female figures fifty figures have been counted on rock-shelter wall. ^^ ^j^^ ^^jj^ of these tWO shelters, of which no less than seventy are of human beings. Onlythree are of women, but they are very interesting. Two. ^ LAnihrop., XXII. (1911), p. 642, Date II. MURAL DECORATION OF CAVES 11 of them recall by their dress the figures at Cogul, and in oneof these the features are clearly distinguishable (Fig. 148).The forehead is high and straight with slightly markedsuperciliary eminences. The nose is aquiline, and the mouthprojects somewhat above a prominent chin. The hair isindicated by a series of vertical lines. The right hand israised to the face, the left lies on the breast. The men arenude save for garter-like ornaments and rings on theirlegs. Some have ornaments, apparently feathers, on theirheads, in one case at least recalling the head-dress of North
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