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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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246 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL figures in the caxes are within reach of the hand. In other words, the caves have undergone no particular changes since the artist did his work. Not a few of the paintings, and especially the finer in these caves? It is unsafe to move ten steps in them withovit a light. It is true that a very few stone basins have been found that may have served pur- poses similar to the Eskimo lamp, or the
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A weathered indentation in the limestone cliflf such as served to shelter early man. Looking down the Vezere Valley from the point of its junction with the Beune Valley, at Les Eyzies, France. Several caves are to be found in the distant cliff and on one of its high sheltered terraces there is the interesting ruin of a church dating from the early Christian era engravings seem as fresh as if done yester- day. In the Pindal cave is the repre- sentation of a fish incised on the wall and the visitor who examines it closely would swear that he could make a line exactly like it with a lead pencil, but with Pro- fessors Breuil and Obermaier standing behind him he says nothing. And how did palaeolithic man manage to get about artist's right-hand man may have car- ried a torch; but there are no signs of such torches or of carbonization on the walls in the vicinity of the paintings, although smoke spots made by modern lamps and candles held too close are abundant enough. The conviction that this cave art is not so old as some would have us believe seems irresistible.

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1915
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  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
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