{p. 349}
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PRE-GLACIAL MAN'S PICTURE OF THE MAMMOTH
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Drift deposits. Nay, more, a picture of a mammoth has been found engraved upon a piece of mammoth-tusk. The engraving on page 349 represents this most curious work of art.
The man who carved this must have seen the creature it represented; and, as the mammoth did not survive the Drift, that man must have lived before or during the Drift. And he was no savage. Says Sir John Lubbock:
"No representation, however rude, of any animal has yet been found in any of the Danish shell-mounds, or the Stone-Age lake-villages. Even on objects of the Bronze Age they are so rare that it is doubtful whether a single well-authenticated instance could be produced."[1]
In the Dordogne caves the following spirited drawing was found, representing a group of reindeer:
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PRE-GLACIAL MAN'S PICTURE OF REINDEER.