26 INTRODUCTION 
well as large game, but had 
not yet learned how to 
reach the fish.” 
In addition to osseous 
deposits, numerous ichthyic 
carvings and engravings on 
materials and weapons pre- 
sent themselves. It is 
curious, however, to note 
that (at any rate up to 
1915) of all the caves and 
grottoes two only, Pindal 
on the wall, and Niaux 
(the latest discovered 
French cave where black 
is the solitary colour em- 
ployed) on the floor, furnish 
us with representations of 
fish on wall or floor. 
These Old Stone Men 
not only observed closely, 
but portrayed the results 
of their observations with 
remarkable _ faithfulness. 
The reliefs of bisons 
mounted in clay and the 
effigies of women carved 
in ivory, the paintings of 
bisons instinct with life and 
movement, the figures of 
two seals (engraved on a 
béton from Montgaudier) 
with a dead trout,! of 
another seal engraved on a 
drilled bear’s tooth (from 
Duruthy), and of an otter 
16. Cartailhac, La France 
Préhistorique, Paris, 1889, p. 82, 
fig. 41. 
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TWO SEALS, DEAD TROUT, AND (?) EELS. 
From Le béton de bois de renne de Montgaudier Museum, 
