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INTRODUCTION 



well as large game, but had 

 not j^et learned how to 

 reach the fish." 



In addition to osseous 

 deposits, numerous ichthyic 

 carvings and engravings on 

 materials and weapons pre- 

 sent themselves. It is 

 curious, however, to note 

 that (at any rate up to 

 1915) of all the caves and 

 grottoes two only, Pindal 

 on the wall, and Niaux 

 (the latest discovered 

 French cave where black 

 is the solitary colour em- 

 ployed) on the floor, furnish 

 us with representations of 

 fish on wall or floor. 



These Old Stone Men 

 not only observed closely, 

 but portrayed the results 

 of their observations with 

 remarkable faithfulness. 

 The reliefs of bisons 

 mounted in clay and the 

 effigies of women carved 

 in ivory, the paintings of 

 bisons instinct with life and 

 movement, the figures of 

 two seals (engraved on a 

 baton from Montgaudier) 

 with a dead trout, 1 of 

 another seal engraved on a 

 drilled bear's tooth (from 

 Duruthy), and of an otter 



^ £. Cartailhac, La France 

 Pr^histonqite, Paris, 1889, p. 82, 

 fig. 41. 



