Early Man in Britain And His Place in the Tertiary Period;
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The victim is considered by 1 Maeirviux, 1869, p. 348, PL ;33, Fig. 1. CHAP. VII.] HUNTING OF UKUS. 213 M. Massenat to be a bison, but the double curvature, as well as the length of the horns, prove that it was the urus, an animal which was hunted in the forests of Aachen (Aix la ChapeUe) by the Emperor Charles the Great in the ninth century after Christ. Another hunting scene^ ' Rel. Aq., B. PI. 2, Fig. 8. 214 EARLY MAN 11^ BRITAIN. [chap.yii. has been preserved in the rock-shelter of La Madel...aine, in which the hunter (Fig. 78), also naked, but standing Fig. 78. — Tlie Hunting of Bi.soii.s ami Ilov.se.s, La Mailclaiue, i. up, is in the act of striking a horse with something in his right hand which is probably intended for a spear. He has evidently surprised a lierd, and the head of the horse which he is attacking has its cars pricked up in a very significant fashion. The figure to the left is pro- bably an eel. On the other side of the rounded antler two bisons' heads are drawn with remarkable spirit, their simply curved short horns offering a great contrast to those of the urus of the preceding figure.
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