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time in order to reach such a hornless condition. Bisons 

 are represented, and the auroch, or wild bull. Also there 

 are really beautiful drawings of reindeer. The fact that 

 reindeer could live in the South of France proves that the 

 climate was then much colder than at present, and helps 

 to prove that these drawings were made not very long 

 after the last Ice Age, when all Northern Europe down to 

 Central Germany lay under an ice-cap similar to that 

 which now covers Greenland. It is possible, Sir Arthur 

 thinks, that these artistic Aurignacians actually lived 

 before the last Ice Age. 



A very wonderful find has recently been made in a cave 

 at St Martory, near Toulouse, where models of all sorts of 

 animals worked in clay have been discovered, some com- 

 plete, some unfinished, just as they were left by the 

 prehistoric artist. One is a model of a bear cub without a 

 head, and lying near it is the skull of a real bear. There 

 are two large models, each about five feet long, of animals 

 of the cat tribe, either lions or tigers. These models are 

 believed to date back to the Magdalenian epoch, between 

 twenty thousand and fifty thousand years ago. It would 

 seem that this cave was the studio of the ancient sculptor, 

 who was perhaps called away by some tribal raid from 

 which he never returned. 



We referred earlier in this chapter to the curious fact 

 that fossilized bones of the horse are found all over the 

 American continent. It may be interesting to add here 

 that there has been discovered in Hava Supai Canyon, 

 near the Colorado River, a picture, cut in the red sand- 

 stone, of an elephant attacking a man, which proves that 

 the elephant existed with man in the New World. Why 

 or how the elephant became extinct there it is impossible 

 to say. On the walls of the same canyon is a rough carving 

 of what is unmistakably a dinosaur; this is the first 

 indication that man ever saw a living dinosaur. 



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