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On the Track of Prehistoric Man, by Herbert Kühn. Translated by Alan Houghton Brodrick. 211 pp. New York: Random House. $3.95

A noted anthropologist describes his journeys to various caverns in France and Spain in which may still be seen pictures scratched or painted on the rock walls some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago. The excellent photographs and numerous line drawings in the text provide a convenient conspectus of the earliest art of mankind. Some of the pictures evince a high degree of pictorial skill; others are so crude and inept that they might be mistaken for prize-winning daubs from a modern exhibit of “abstractionism.” R.P.O.

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On the Track of Prehistoric Man, by Herbert Kühn. Translated by Alan Houghton Brodrick. 211 pp. New York: Random House. $3.95

A noted anthropologist describes his journeys to various caverns in France and Spain in which may still be seen pictures scratched or painted on the rock walls some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago. The excellent photographs and numerous line drawings in the text provide a convenient conspectus of the earliest art of mankind. Some of the pictures evince a high degree of pictorial skill; others are so crude and inept that they might be mistaken for prize-winning daubs from a modern exhibit of “abstractionism.” R.P.O.