THE EARLIEST PICTURE IN THE WORLD 3 



" Elapho-Tarandian." At this period the reindeer (Tar- 

 andus), which previously abounded, is giving place to the 

 red deer (Elaphus). The layer in which this carving was 

 found belongs to the latest of 

 the Palaeolithic cave deposits, 

 and was followed by a warmer 

 period, in which the red deer 

 and the modern fauna entirely 

 replaced the old fauna of the 

 Glacial period. The deposits 

 in Pyrenean caves of the 

 Elapho - Tarandian age are 

 characterized by an abund- 

 ance of large flat harpoons 

 serrated on both sides. In this 

 latest horizon of the Reindeer 

 period the art of engraving 

 in outline on bone and stone 

 had attained the highest pitch 

 of excellence which it reached ,-, 



FIG. 3. A. Perforated harpoon 



in the prehistoric race of O f the Azilian or Red-Deer 

 South- West Europe. period, made from antler of 



A very natural tendency red deer > found in q^ntity in 



. , , - the upper layers of deposit 



among those who hear from in the cavern of the Mas d'Azil 



time to time something of (Arriege). B and C. Imper- 



what is being discovered about forate harpoons or lance heads 



primitive man is to confuse -ade from reindeer antler of the 



r Magdaleman period (Reindeer 



all the periods and races of epoch). B from Bruniquel Cave 



prehistoric man together, and (Tarn-et-Garonne). C from a 



so picture to themselves one cavern . in the Hautes Pyrenees. 



. , , ., ... , -H/T Same size as the objects, 



ideal " primitive man. My 



friend Mr. Rudyard Kipling does this, although it would 

 be no further from a true conception were he to blend 

 his ancient Britons, his Phenicians, his Romans, his 

 Saxons, his Normans, and a few Hindoos into one 



