{The History of Art[:]}{The Paleolithic Period [continued (6)] – The Paleolithic Venus [continued]}[7th November 1990]

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‘Schematic decoration is used on tools and ornaments in Western Europe, * but it is here that the naturalistic tradition has its greatest development and this is reflected in both miniature and mural art. Engravings of animals occur on non-manufactured pieces and on bone and antler tools, and low- and full-relief carvings are used. Decorated pieces are known from all Upper Paleolithic stages in France and Spain but more than 80 per cent of such work, as well as that of greatest quality, belongs to the middle and late stages of the Magdalenian, that is from c13,000 to 8,000 years BC[E].**

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** – ibid [The Encylopaedia of Visual Art], 5

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