MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
Ornamentation of this va- 
riety, as opposed to the more 
purely naturalistic designs of 
Aurignacian times, is dis- 
tinctly east European. But 
whether they were Solutrean 
or not, undoubtedly these de- 
signs also possessed a magical 
significance. 
As we have seen, the Solu- 
trean culture appears to have 
reached western Europe from 
the east, perhaps as a result 
of actual invasion by a new, 
more warlike, and more ef- 
ficiently armed people from 
the steppes of southern 
Russia or southwestern Si- 
beria. The possessors of this 
culture seem throughout their 
history to have sought the 
lowlands rather than moun- 
tainous regions; also they de- 
pended for food chiefly upon 
plains-loving species of ani- 
mals, notably the steppe type 
Fic. 48. Geometrical design rep- of wild horse. 
Fesemting: a, Woman, engraved) \in Yet abundant signs indi- 
ivory. The triangular head, the : 
breasts, hips, and legs are indi- Cate that the respective cul- 
cated, From Fredmost, Moravia. tures of the Aurignacians and 
After Kriz 
the Solutreans reacted upon 
each other in many ways. Maybe wherever the Solutreans 
penetrated, they constituted themselves a sort of ruling 
class or tribe exacting tribute from their predecessors, the 
Aurignacians, as the Iroquois Indians did from the Algon- 
kins in America. Or they may simply have driven the 
Aurignacians into hilly or densely forested regions where 
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