THEY OLD, STONE AGE 
combined two or more methods. They showed great abil- 
ity in modeling figures in clay, like the two bisons in the 
cavern of Tuc d’Audoubert or the clay bear with a real 
bear’s skull in the cave of Montespan. In fact they prob- 
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Fic. 57. Design of a herd of reindeer, engraved on the wing bone of an eagle. 
From the cave of La Mairie, southwestern France. After Capitan and Breuil 
ably employed this method a good deal more commonly 
than its few surviving examples would indicate; for Cro- 
Magnon man had not learned to bake his clay figures, 
which therefore must usually have soon gone to pieces. 
Of these various arts, engraving and painting especially 
characterized the Middle Magdalenian, when the latter 
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Fic. 58. A mammoth engraved on ivory, from the station of La Madeleine. One 
of the earliest and most spirited specimens of the later Old Stone Age art found. 
After Lartet 
method in particular reached its height. The artist used 
ocher and oxide of manganese for pigments, grinding them 
fine in stone mortars and mixing them with some such 
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