| In the Pyrenees mountains, the Magdalenians, the last hunters of prehistoric times, have lived off a vast territory for six millenium and produced a remarkable portable art. This civilization without writing is illustrated by 450 artefacts : tools, hunting weapons, works of art on bone, ivory, |
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cervidae antler and stone, discovered during archaeological excavations. The topics of this art essentially involve the great wild fauna consisting in horses, bisons, ibex, stags, reindeers and sometimes man himself is
represented as a masked or a caricaturised figure.
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Ministère de la Culture