Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some light tanning due to age. Pullout map present. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Age and there are many legends and traditions about it. We have very life-like representations of it handed down by the primeval inhabitants of Europe who lived beside the mammoth and hunted it. Some of them painted and engraved pictures of these animals on the walls of their cave dwellings and a series of these was found in the caves of the South of France and of Spain. The best known is the excellent drawing of a mammoth on a piece of ivory found in a cave in Dordogne and first copied in 1865 by von Lartet in his book Reliquia Aquitanica. In 1789 a French explorer Breuil published two wall pictures found in a cave of Combarelles also in Dordogne. These were engravings of an adult mammoth and a young one and we can distinguish between them because in the grown animals we can see the contours of the body plainly through the covering of hair while the calves are completely enveloped in hair and seem almost as round as a ball. The pictures show their trunks hanging down or swinging back- wards but the tusks are usually not very clear and seem often to be out of drawing probably because they were not easy to do. They are often drawn very long and curved. The foreheads are high and strongly arched. (SP)