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HISTORICAL GEOLOGY 



Fig. 236 

 The "Procession of Mammoths"; a painting by Paleolithic 

 Man in a cave at Font-de-Gaume in west-central France. 

 Note the lack of perspective composition. (After Capitan 

 and Breuil, courtesy of the American Museum of Natural 

 History.) 



that the work of many different artists is represented, covering a 

 considerable period of time. The walls show traces of many other 

 paintings that were erased to make way for new work." * 



Many other caves 

 containing works 

 of art have been 

 discovered in north- 

 ern Spain and in 

 France. 



The appearance 

 of true Man "was 

 an event which in 

 importance ranks 

 with the advent of 

 life upon the planet, 

 and marks a new 

 manifestation of cre- 

 ative energy upon a 

 higher plane. There 

 now appeared intelli- 

 gence, reason, a 

 moral nature, and a 

 capacity for self-di- 

 rected progress such as had never been before on earth" (W. H. 

 Norton) . 



1 Clark Wissler: Arner. Mus. Jour., Dec, 1912, pp. 290-292. 



Fig. 237 

 Line cut copy of a Paleolithic painting in the cave 

 at Cogul, Spain. This is perhaps the only known 

 attempt to portray human beings. (After Car- 

 tailhac and Breuil, courtesy of the American 

 Museum of Natural History.) 



