ANTIQUITY OF MAN IN EUROPE—MACCURDY. 565 
soon found this to be true especially of the front and dorsal views. 
Even his favorite profiles did not escape the universal tendency 
particularly when 
they dealt with 
groupings or herds \, 
of animals. An ex- \\ 
cellent example was 
recently discovered 
in the cavern of 
La Mairie at Tey- 
‘jat (Dordogne). It 
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represents a herd of Zupps § 
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reindeer (fig. 16). \ f= \ 
The three in the lead DLs 3 
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— 
ve 
are fairly well dif- 
ferentiated as is also 
one at the rear. The 
space between is 
filled in by cross- 
hatching similar to 
that on the bodies of 
the leaders, repre- 
senting therefore 
the undifferentiated 
bodies of those in 
middle of the herd. 
Above rises a forest 
of horns. These be- 
ing the most charac- 
teristic feature of 
the animal are exag- 
gerated as if to make 
up for the artist’s sac- 
rifice of detail with 
respect to body and 
limbs. The entire 
group is delicately 
incised on the radius 
of an eagle that was 
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found in the upper fic. 14.—Panel engravings on a piece of reindeer horn. 
Magdalenian layer Lower Magdalenian, cavern of Gourdan (Haute-Garonne). 
After Piette, L’anthr., vol. 15, p. 163, 1904. 
of the cavern floor. 
A work of art similar to the foregoing but engraved on a frag- 
ment of stone and representing horses instead of reindeer was found 
many years ago in the cavern of Chaffaud (Vienne). The surface 
