TH 'il\ AND ANTPjl II V OF MAN H 



eye and hand. The cavern um-t have I.een more than a 



e of safety from wild leasts and a nli'-l- 

 storms; it must have been a place in which sedentary 

 hal'its developed ti :H of estln-tic ilea, 



for we fui'l u|Min th walls of th-s,- caves simplf <lraw- 



plrmrnU of the MftgdmlenUin Epoch. 



ings and elaborate color paintings of tin- rhinoceros, 

 bison, and n-indrtT. Perhaps these pictures had 



IS significance. We do not know. Symtolic signif- 

 icance of some sort th<>y undoubtedly did possess. In 

 any event, tli.-ir artists passed away, as di<l their tradi- 

 tions, ages before the civilizations of Babylon or Egypt 

 began. 



The map in figure 37 shows the location of prehist 



