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period there does not appear to have been any care or preservation 

 of anything for future generations, for there were no tombs, no burials, 

 no monuments, and, except the caverns, no habitations. There appears 

 to have been neither opportunity nor incentive to preserve such objects. 

 But in the fragments we can recognize the artistic feeling of the people. 

 It is even contended by some investigators that different schools of art 



Fig. 64. 



HORSES AND DEEB, TRIAL SKETCHES ON FRAGMENT OF SHOULDER BLADE. 



Grotto of Lortet (Haute Pyrenees). 



Collection, Piette. % natural size. 



can be recognized in different localities; that the art of the Pyrenees 

 was different from that of the Dordogne, and the same between the 

 caverns of Switzerland and Savoy and those of western France. The 

 animals represented have been done with sufficient exactness to enable 

 us to determine what was intende<l. M. de Mortillet has said that while 

 we are here in the presence of the infancy of art it is far from being the 

 art of an infant, and MM. Cartailhac, Chauvet, Piette, Perrot, and 



