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which horses are the victims, has been already brought 

 before the reader in treating the methods employed for 

 taking the game (Fig. 78), as well as two others, in 

 which the game consists of uri and reindeer (Figs. 77, 

 79). The last animal, as might be expected from the 

 abundance of its bones in the refuse-heaps, was more 

 often depicted by the hunter than any other. Some- 

 times it is drawn in groups, as in Fig. 79, and in others 



FIG. 86. Reindeer incised on Antler, Kesslerloch, |. 



singly. In Fig. 86 we see a buck, with its head down 

 grazing, without thought of the hunter, who has handed 

 down the attitude to us on a portion of antler found 

 in the cave of Kesslerloch, 1 as the highest example of 

 Palaeolithic art as yet discovered. It is the only attempt 

 at representing the herbage as well as the animal. 



1 Merk, Excavations at the Kesslerloch near Thayingen, transl. by J. E. 

 Lee, 1876. Heim, Mit. der Antiq. Gesellsch. in Zurich, xvii. p. 125. 

 Fig. 86 is taken from Prof. Heim's careful sketch. 



