Identifier: sciencerecordcom1874beac (find matches)
Title: The Science record; a compendium of scientific progress and discovery
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Beach, Alfred Ely, 1826-1896
Subjects: Technology Industrial arts
Publisher: New York, Munn
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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France,are worthy of note. The articles found constitute a splen-did collection of implements in flint and bone, and alsostones and reindeer-horns, carved or sculptured with greatcare, indicating a higher degree of artistic taste than isexhibited by any other people of the same period. Theanimals portrayed in this collection are the reindeer, stag,chamois, goat, bison, horse, wolf, boar, monkey, badger,antelope, fishes, birds. There are also representations ofsome plants. Three drawings of mediocre execution mayrepresent a rhinoceros, a mammoth, and a lion. The draw-ings are carved in very fine lines, and the artist showsgreat regard for detail. The carvings from Dordogne aremostly very different from these, being executed with afreer hand. It is a singular circumstance that in the lowest layer ofsoil in this cave are found the best representations of ani-mal forms. As the topmost layer is approached, suchfigures grow more and more rare, the head of the animal 49& SCIENCE RECORD.
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NATURAL HISTORY AND ZOOLOGY. 499 now being given instead of the whole body ; and, finally,ornamental figures, zigzags, etc., entirely replace animalforms. M. Piette, who recently delivered a discoursebefore the Paris Anthropological Society on the GourdanCave, thinks that this exclusion of animal forms is owingto the progress of religious ideas among the troglodytes.Several of those curious implements, called by archaeo-logists batons de commandement, have been found at Gour-dan, ornamented with animals heads. One of them isterminated with a fantastical head, well sculptured. Thereis also a rib of a horse, with the figure of an antelopecarved on it; and the bone of a bird carved with variousfigures—plants, reindeer, and a fish. This is withoutexception the largest collection of prehistoric implementsin bone and horn ever discovered. THE FOSSIL MAN OF MENTONE. The discovery of a human skeleton in one of the grot-tos of Mentone, a village on the south coast of France,near Nice, has pr

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