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Show SKETCH OF PRE-HISTORIC MAN Early Painting Proves That Thousand! of Centuries Ago Humanity Walked on Four Feet. The Paris Figaro gives an account of a recent remarkable discovery of paintings In a pre-hi.storic cave of South France. In particular, a sketch has been found of a man who went on all fours and possessed a tail. The account runs, in part: "Count Bcgouen and his sons discovered dis-covered on the walls of the subterranean subterra-nean galleries some engravings estimated esti-mated to be 30,000 years old, and in such quantity and variety that the extraordinary ex-traordinary ensemble of pre-historie art work constitutes a veritable museum. mu-seum. "The animals figured in the cave ar considerable in number, and include reindeers, bisons, horses, both isolated and In groups ; bears, elephants and rhinosceroses. The representation of felines are very rare in pre-historic art, but SIM. Begouen have photographed photo-graphed In their cave a genuine lion, executed in bas-relief. They have made cut, also, several birds, including ewans-and ducks, as well as three predatory night flyers. ''The human figure is likewise represented repre-sented in the cave, which, in recognition recogni-tion of the sons of Count Begouen, has been baptized 'the Cave of the Three Brothers.' A silhouette is particularly remarkable, almost baffling. It represents repre-sents a man in motion a man of powerful pow-erful body, whose head and shoulders are Joined by an enormous neck ; a man whose -upper and lower limbs and whose hands and feet are perfectly perfect-ly human, but whose vertebral column Is prolonged In an exterior appendage resembling that of the anthropoids a nian at last, who walks on four feet I' " |
