52 "fHE COMING OF MAN 



the motive joy in the work? Probably to some extent, and 

 this added to its beauty. But the painting was probably 

 expected to give them some occult, magical power over the 

 animals represented. They were a remarkable race with an 

 equally remarkable art. 



The Ice Age wore away. The tundra with its mosses and 

 shrubs gave place to meadow and forest. The reindeer, the 

 chief food of the Cro-Magnon hunters, went eastward and 

 northward, and gave place to the forest stag. The hunters 

 of the reindeer became fewer in number, and were succeeded 

 by an inferior lot, apparently of fisherfolk along the streams. 

 The long Palaeolithic period had ended. 



