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Palaeolithic images and the Great Auk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Anne  and
Michael Eastham
Michael Eastham
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Dolau, Dwrbach, Scleddau, Fishguard SA65 9RN, Dyfed, Wales
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Abstract

In this final contribution on the identification of the birds painted in the Palaeolithic Grotte Cosquer as Great Auks, it is noticed that the birds need to be seen within a Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer's view of the world, which is not the same as that of a modern natural historian or taxonomist.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 266 , December 1995 , pp. 1023 - 1025
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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