Word: prehistorian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France's foremost prehistorian, the Abbé Henri Breuil, soon inspected the pictures, pronounced them genuine and highly important. Early this year he managed to relay news of the discovery to the learned British journal, Nature. Archeologists and anthropologists world-over opened their eyes in amazement, then frowned wearily at the difficulty of getting adequate photographs through the confusion and censorship of Vichy. Last week TIME succeeded in bringing them out. The most interesting of them appear herewith...
...Neanderthalers had no art. The first artists were the Cro-Magnon men, whose earliest culture-period is called the Aurignacian. The newfound cave at Montignac represents this glimmering dawn-culture on the vastest scale yet found. Its significance, says U.S. Prehistorian George Grant MacCurdy, is that the appearance of art "marks a distinct epoch in mental evolution." The Abbe Breuil calls the Montignac cave "the Sistine Chapel of Aurignacian...