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Title: An introduction to the study of prehistoric art
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Parkyn, Ernest Albert, b. 1857
Subjects: Art, Primitive
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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of the ancient hunters who lived in theDordogne valley during the Old Stone Age. Rivieresdiscovery not unnaturally recalled attention to Altamira,which was soon again visited, and its paintings carefullyre-examined, resulting ultimately in the general convictionthat they were executed during the same age. The significance of these wall drawings being nowappreciated, careful examination of other caves was madewith a view to discovering similar engravings and paintingson their walls. Success beyond expectation has rewarded 1 Breves apuntes solve algunos objectos prehistoricos de la provincia deSantander, Madrid (1880). 2M. Piette was a marked exception, for he expressed his beUef intheir Palaeolithic age when first informed by M. Santuola of theircharacter: cf. Caverne de Font de Gaume, p. i n. MURAL DECORATION OF CAVES 73 these explorations. Numbers of caves with walls thusornamented are now known. Roughly speaking, they aresituated in three districts, the Dordoo-ne, the northern flank
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Fig. 98.—Map of South-West France and Spain, showing the sites of cave and rockpaintings and engravings. (From LAnthropologie.) of the Pyrenees, south of Toulouse, and in north-westSpain. During- the last few years, however, so many dis-coveries of rock engravings and paintings have been madein Spain, over such a wide area, that it is no longer ;4 PREHISTORIC ART possible to speak of the north-west of that country asbeing peculiar in possessing these interesting works ofart. Although, therefore, the areas in which this muraldecoration is found are gradually extending, it will be con-venient, and tend to lucidity, if we consider the subjectunder the three districts mentioned above (Fig. 98). 2. THE DORDOGNE REGION. The most important caves in this region are LaMouthe, Combarelles, Font de Gaume, Teyjat, Bernifaland La Greze. With them may be associated Pair-non-Pair in the Gironde. La Motithe.—As already mentioned this cave was firstexplored by Riviere in 1895, ^-^^^ two years late

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