INTERESTING DISCOVERY.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 21 August 1912, Page 3

INTERESTING DISCOVERY.

Some extremely interesting remains belonging to the Early Stone Ag& have recently been discovered in Spain, the most striking of which consists of beautiful and unique rockpaintings. These pictures, which are executed in black and red, with the outlines and finer details etched in with a sharp instrument, are of great technical and artistic merit, and they raise for us a corner of the veil drawn over the social life of these remote ages. According to a writer, the pictures include spirited drawings of animals (deer, bulls, etc.), elaborate groups representing hunting episodes, and a curious scene in which nine women are dancing round a man. In this last picture, in which four women are shown on the right of a man and five on the left, the man is much smaller than the women,and the petticoats worn by the Palaeolithic ladies are of special interest as forming the only advance yet forthcoming as to the use to which the wonderfully fine-eyed needles of early prehistoric times were put.