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inevitable fornuila to the Cro-Magnon. For just as Neanderthal and Pre- 

 Neanderthaloid man passed througli suecessive periods of eulturc which 

 began with the primiti\e Pre-Chcllean, advanced to the Aeheulean, reached 

 its climax and began to dechne in Mousterian, so the Cro-Magnon saw the 

 beginnings of his ascendancy in the Aurignacian period w hen he fnst intro- 

 duced the art of engraving, drawing and scLilpturnig annual lorms. His 

 culture and industr\- were still dictated by a hfe devoted to the chase and 

 conditioned by such pn^tection as might be afforded by grottoes and similar 

 natural shelters. 



Cro-Magnon Industry, Its Rise and Decline. In the next succeeding 

 period the Cro-Magnon reached the zenith of his industrial supremacy. 

 The Solutrean was the high noon of his cultural achievement just as the 

 Middle Mousterian was for the Neanderthal. In this era the Hint industry 

 attained its culminating stage but its llourishing activities soon began to 

 wane. Thrt)ugh the Magdalenian all of tiie artistic and industrial develop- 

 ment sank slowly toward the horizon of its disappearance. At length in the 

 A/.ilian Period the last survivors of the greatest race in the Old Stone Age, 

 senescent in their industries, decadent in their art, saw the setting of the Cro- 

 Magnon sun and the passing of their kind into the darkness. 



Charueterislics oj Cro-Magnon Art. Many \icissitudes beset the Cro- 

 Magnon industries due to inlluences of trade mvasions and new- 

 inventions. But in their art they revealed one continuous cNolution and 

 sustained de\elo|)ment. An impressi\e IVviture about Aurignacian art is the 

 fact that it seems to ha\e escaped that pi'riod of infantilism which is almost 

 universally observed in the artistic de\elo|)ment of prnnitive races. The Cro- 

 Magnon first manifests his artistic effort in a period ol virile youth. His art 

 passed directly into a stage of relatixc maturit\ based upon his keen appre- 

 ciations of the animate world with which he was in constant contact. The 

 Aurignacians possessed a true sense ol |)r()portion and of beauty which 



