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  • Horse's skull carved in piece of reindeer antler. Le Mas d'Azil, Ariege. Cast in the Wellcome Museum.
  • Magdalenian cave drawing.
  • Magdalenian engraving of bison.
  • Neolithic representation of hunter and stag, Spain.
  • Geometric designs incised in rock, Early Bronze Age.
  • Rock carvings showing housing conditions, Iron Age.
  • Mesolithic representation of a herd of stags.
  • Upper palaeolithic wall painting showing wolf. Cave at Font-de-Gaume.
  • Horses and bison incised on cave wall at La Grotte des Combarelles, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac (Dordogne).
  • Male figure on limestone, Laussel, Upper Palaeolithic period.
  • Female torso sculpted in ivory, Upper Palaeolithic period.
  • Group of horses and one bison, upper Palaeolithic.
  • Neolithic representation of hind, young fawn and stag, Spain
  • Helmeted bronze figurine, Bronze Age.
  • Prehistoric, rock engraving of man and ostriches.
  • Decorated receptacles for paint, prehistoric period.
  • Upper Palaeolithic period, view of gallery with heel prints.
  • Initiation? ceremony, Magdalenian. Nine partially clothed women and one young man.
  • Magdalenian bone spear-thrower, Upper Palaeolithic period.
  • Neolithic representation of solar symbols, Spain.
  • Bushman painting showing lion hunt, South Africa.
  • Examples of supposed Magdalenian writing on bony substances.
  • Neolithic rock carving representing 2 elks, Norway.
  • Bones showing carved representations of plants used as food
  • Rock carvings of dwellings and domestic animals, Iron Age.
  • Magdalenian representation of a mammoth, Upper Palaeolithic
  • Rhinoceros, upper Palaeolithic, from a photograph.
  • Plate from Mahudel, Sur les pretendues pierres de foudre.
  • Sculpted fish on roof of cave, Abri du poison, Dordogne,
  • Neolithic rock art depicting whale and elk, Scandinavian.