PALEOLITHIC ART AS REPRESENTED IN THE COL- 

 LECTIONS OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF 

 NATURAL HISTORY 



By George Grant MacCurdy 



THE specimens that form the basis Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, presi- 

 for this paper were collected dent of the American Museum of Natural 

 during the summer of 1912 by History, and myself.^ They are of 



Carenate flint scrapers from the Abri Blanchard (Dordogne), Middle Aurignacian Epoch. These 

 and many other specimens obtained by the American Museum in 1912 are representative types of 

 Aurignacian industrial remains similar to the original specimens found in 1863 in the cave of Aurignac 

 and now in nearly all excavations of European caves and recognized as showing A\irignacian culture 



1 A map of southwestern Europe showing the principal cavern regions is to be found in the Decem- 

 ber, 1912, Journal (opp. page 280). The map accompanies an article descriptive of the motor jour- 

 ney taken by Professor Osborn and Professor MacCurdy to European pateolithic caverns in 1912 when 

 many valuable specimens were obtained to fill gaps in the American Museum series. The January, 1913, 

 Journal contains a previous article by Professor MacCurdy on "Cultural Proof of Man's Antiquity." 



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