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We learn from The Times of October 31 that Count Begouen, the well-known investigator of prehistoric archæology, has made a remarkable discovery in the cave known as Tus Ditboubert, in the district of Montesquieu-Aventes (Ariège), where three months ago he found mural paintings of animals, presumably of Aurignacian age. On October 10 the Count and his son broke through a mass of stalactites, and in the new gallery thus exposed found two clay figures, respectively 26 in. and 30 in. long, representing a bull and cow bison. They appear to have been attached originally to a rock, as one side is rough while the other is completely modelled. They are nearly perfect; the only damage that they had received was that one of the horns of the female bison and its tail had been broken off; the tail was, however, found on the floor of the cave. A third small clay figure was also found, but it was so roughly modelled as to make it impossible to say what it represents.
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The Plastic Art of Palæolithic Man. . Nature 90, 283–284 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090283b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/090283b0