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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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Fig. 30. THE WOOLLY RHINOCEROS Detail of a complete outline sketched by the artist-hunter on the limestone wall of the Cavern of Les Combarelles, France. After l'Abbé Breuil. 44
HALL OF THE AGE OF MAN 45 MEN OF THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD The men of the Old Stone Age (Palaeolithic) lived in Europe during the immensely long periods when the great glacial ice-sheets were gradually either advancing with the falling temperatures of colder winters or retreating northward before the increasing heat of the sum-mer seasons. Near the close of the Würm glacial stage (Chart II) there was a comparatively rapid succession of cultural stages con-stituting the upper Palaeolithic and including the Aurignacian, Solutrean, and Magdalenian cultures. During those times the woolly mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, the wild horse, and the reindeer were abundant, and were hunted by the skilled makers of chipped flint implements. The bow and arrow first appeared in upper Palaeo-lithic times, as recorded in drawings on the

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