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one of the most astounding revelations of prehistoric archseology. 
Typical specimens of their skill in carving and sculpture on bone, 
deer-horn, and ivory may he studied on Plates III. to X. Figs. 
20 and 21 represent two stones from the rock-shelter of 
Montastruc, Bruniquel, with outlines of bovidse incised on them, 
the forms of which might have been intended for the Bos jprimi- 
genius. The originals are now in the British Museum. 
C. — The Carving and Painting of Animals on the Walls of 
Palaeolithic Caves. 
Within later years interest in the art remains of these 
(After E. Riviere.) 
Palaeolithic hunters has been greatly stimulated by the dis- 
covery of large engravings, and even coloured paintings, of 
various animals on the walls of some newly-explored caves in 
the South of France, more especially those of Combarelles and 
Font-de-Gaume, both situated in the Commune of Tayac (Dor- 
dogne), and within a short distance of the well-known station 
of Les Eyzies. Obscure indications of this kind of art had been 
observed as early as 1875 in the cave of Altamira, . near San- 
tander, in the north-east of Spain. Subsequently, and at various 
intervals, more pronounced examples were notified in the caves 
of Chabot (Gard), La Mouthe (Dordogne), and Pair-non-Pair 
