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26 INTRODUCTIONwell as large game, but hadnot j^et learned how toreach <strong>the</strong> fish."In addition to osseousdeposits, numerous ichthyiccarvings and engravings onmaterials and weapons present<strong>the</strong>mselves. It iscurious, however, to notethat (at any rate up to1915) of all <strong>the</strong> caves andgrottoes two only, Pindalon <strong>the</strong> wall, and Niaux(<strong>the</strong> latest discoveredFrench cave where blackis <strong>the</strong> solitary colour employed)on <strong>the</strong> floor, furnishus withrepresentations offish on wall or floor.These Old Stone Mennotonly observed closely,but portrayed <strong>the</strong> resultsof <strong>the</strong>ir observations withremarkable faithfulness.The reliefs of bisonsmounted in clay and <strong>the</strong>effigies of women carvedin ivory, <strong>the</strong> paintings ofbisons instinct with life andmovement, <strong>the</strong> figures oftwo seals (engraved on abaton <strong>from</strong> Montgaudier)with a dead trout, 1 ofano<strong>the</strong>r seal engraved on adrilled bear's tooth (<strong>from</strong>Duruthy), and ofan otter^ £. Cartailhac, La FrancePr^histonqite, Paris, 1889, p. 82,fig. 41.

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