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Prehistoric carving

Prehistoric carving.jpg Gold pectoral inlaid with enamelThumbnailsPectoral of Ramses IIGold pectoral inlaid with enamelThumbnailsPectoral of Ramses IIGold pectoral inlaid with enamelThumbnailsPectoral of Ramses IIGold pectoral inlaid with enamelThumbnailsPectoral of Ramses IIGold pectoral inlaid with enamelThumbnailsPectoral of Ramses II

In short, the prehistoric carvings are from the hands of men who were neither beginners nor blunderers in their art. The practised skill of a modern wood engraver would scarcely exceed in firmness and decision, nor in evident rapidity of execution, the outline of the animals in the example which is here engraved.