Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The American Museum contains these tallies or marques de chasses fromAbri Blanchard (Dordogne) representing the Middle Aurignacian Epoch, interpreted as records made by Aurignacian hunters We can thus picture the cHmatic condi- tions that attended the birth of Quater- nary art in western and central Europe; and climate is no mean factor in the environment of primitive man. Among other things it determines the character of the fauna and thus has a bearing on the fundamental problems of food-get- ting as well as defense. Upper Quaternary fauna may be reconstructed from the fossil remains associated with human cultural remains; 230 it is also reflected in the art of the time. Judging from both these sources one arrives at the conclusion that Aurigna- cians and Solutreans were contempo- raries of an Equus fauna with the horse predominating, the mammoth still abun- dant, the bison also plentiful, and the reindeer gaining in prominence. The horse and reindeer were dominant in the Magdalenian. Bos primigenius plays a secondary role in the art of the time and is not conspicuous for its fossil

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