16/25
Home / Albums /

A Grazing Bison, Delicately and Carefully Drawn, Engraved on a Wall of the Altamira Cave, Northern Spain

ThumbnailsPreviousNext
Photo sizes slideshowdownload
A Grazing Bison, Delicately and Carefully Drawn, Engraved on a Wall of the Altamira Cave, Northern Spain.jpg NautilusThumbnailsA Mammoth Drawn on the Wall of the Font-de-Gaume CavernNautilusThumbnailsA Mammoth Drawn on the Wall of the Font-de-Gaume CavernNautilusThumbnailsA Mammoth Drawn on the Wall of the Font-de-Gaume CavernNautilusThumbnailsA Mammoth Drawn on the Wall of the Font-de-Gaume CavernNautilusThumbnailsA Mammoth Drawn on the Wall of the Font-de-Gaume Cavern
Google+ Twitter Facebook Tumblr

This was the work of a Reindeer Man or Cromagnard, in the Upper or Post-Glacial Pleistocene, perhaps 25,000 years ago. Firelight must have been used in making these cave drawings and engravings.

Author
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4), by J. Arthur Thomson
Published in 1922
Available from gutenberg.org
Dimensions
900*548
Visits
1407
Downloads
63