An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . n the walls of caves, notmany engravings of the bison on bone or horn have beenfound in the tloor deposits. A good drawing of a bisonshead engraved on bone was found at Laugerie Basse,^and the same station supplies a full-length engraving on ^ LAnthrop., xv., Fig. 64, p. 171. 2 Piette, op. cit., Plate LXXXIII, Figs. 4 and 4a. ^ LAnihrop., xv., Fig. 34, p. 150. ^Relig. Aquit., Plate B, II, Fig. 6. rAnthrop., xvni., p. 23. 62 PREHISTORIC ART the opposite side of the piece of schist engraved withreindeer (the so-called Combat de Rennes)/ Anexcelle
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . n the walls of caves, notmany engravings of the bison on bone or horn have beenfound in the tloor deposits. A good drawing of a bisonshead engraved on bone was found at Laugerie Basse,^and the same station supplies a full-length engraving on ^ LAnthrop., xv., Fig. 64, p. 171. 2 Piette, op. cit., Plate LXXXIII, Figs. 4 and 4a. ^ LAnihrop., xv., Fig. 34, p. 150. ^Relig. Aquit., Plate B, II, Fig. 6. rAnthrop., xvni., p. 23. 62 PREHISTORIC ART the opposite side of the piece of schist engraved withreindeer (the so-called Combat de Rennes)/ Anexcellent engraving of this animal on the same materialcomes from Bruniquel^ (Fig- 84)- T^^e cavern of MasdAzil has given a finely engraved life-like drawing of thehead, also on stone ^ (Fig. 85). A rare example of an animalnow living only in northern latitudes is the Glutton (Guloborealis). This specimen, found at La Madeleine, is furtherinteresting because the engraving is executed on a smallelongated piece of horn with a hole at one end, pointing to.
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