
1888 Caveman Vs Pleistocene Cave Bear B

by Science Photo Library
Title
1888 Caveman Vs Pleistocene Cave Bear B
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Science Photo Library
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Cave man protects his mate and child from a marauding cave bear. He wields a hafted axe (from a later period) before a trophy skull of irish elk. Vivid colour lithograph from Dr. Schubert's Naturgeschichte - Geologie, Mineralreich, Palaontologie". Published in Stuttgart by J.F. Shreiber. The palaeontology section by Dr. Friedrich Rolle. The realisation that man was present among the extinct animals of pre-history was still quite fresh at the end of the 19th century when this was printed. German lithographers dominated colour lithography with their high volume productions such as this book for Children."
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May 12th, 2013
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