Émile Cartailhac
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Émile Cartailhac was a French prehistorian, sometimes regarded as one of the founding fathers of the studies of the cave art.
Émile Cartailhac
A bison in Altamira
Cave of Altamira
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The Cave of Altamira is a cave complex, located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. It is renowned for prehistoric cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome pai
Émile Cartailhac
…regarded as one of the founding fathers of the studies of the cave art. Cartailhac is perhaps best remembered because of his involvement with the Altamira paintings, which he originally dismissed as a forgery on the specious grounds that primitive men had no capacity for abstract thought. This ruined the…
Magdalenian polychrome bison
Bison on the roof of the pit.
Great hall of polychromes of Altamira, published by M. Sanz de Sautuola in 1880.
Reproduction of the Cave of Altamira in the Deutsches Museum, Munich.