Evening star., 1932-08-07

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he laid her helpless at his feet
Then STOPPING. he clutched her long hair ana
dragged her of to his cave, his chosen mate.
So runs the traditional love story Of the Dig
virtle cave man and the shrinking, submissive
cave woman.
man a hero and a symbol. Many romantic
maiden of the steel age has sighed her prel-
erence for cave men.
The only trouble with the story is that 1t can
be traced back to its origin. And the olgin
wasn't anything that happened zo'oOo yeaIs
ago, when cave men walked the e@t'n @iiu o--'
out wife hunting. 81,
The cave man lover Is q tradition no oloer
than the imagination of grandfather ana grand
mother who discussed such things In tne VIC
torian era. The story was one OF tnose sooolp
stories that grow bigger and better every tme
they are told, until tney cfysC@h1e ~n0 "N
folklore
TUE truth is science realizes today, that the
cave mans psychology is lost and forgotten
information almost beyond hope OF recall
That being the case, you can understand
the eager interest Of French arcneoiosiS'
Count Rene de St. Perier. when he was Dig
Rtne recently in the Grotto Of Isturttz. IN South
ern France and unearthed bit OF rare
archaeological treasure. It was stone Aee
artists picture Of a man and woman togetner.
The picture, according to st. Periers specuia-
courtship-the courtship OF one OF those
mysterious cave men.
The man in the picture has no club. But
in the leg Of the woman is lodged baroed
dart If the Count de st. Perier is right, and
this is a love scene it would seem that darts,
not clubs, were the weapons OF cupio Ill CIe
Old Stone Age.
The curious little picture has brought the
cave man and cave woman into the scientific
limallght. American anthropologistS have dis
agreed with the French scientists interpre-
tation In the clash there emerges a new
American theory of the cave fair
minded human being who gave the women foik
a souarer deal than women have gained laIer
in many a civilized society.
The controversial picture was discovered by
the Count de st. Perier in cave apartment
whore many people OF the Stone Age long ago
took shelter. In the floor Of the cave, explorers
have unearthed harpoon points OF bone and
stone broken stone ornaments, and animal
bones from many dinners.
nth such objects as this belongs the I'M
w portant bit OF Stone Age art. The un-
known artist of the Magdalenian period, some
20 600 years ago, chose for his art medium a
long piece Of bone On this, with a sharpened
tool he engraved his pictures. He decorated
both of the fat faces Of the bone.
On one side the artist outlined a shaggy
bison, WOunoeo 0y Two Dax pco oAtLS 1di2
ing along in desperate snorting fury. Such
pictures of the hunt were popular art subjects
in the Msgdalenian period Of the Old Stone
Age.
some archeologists consider that the hunt
ing pictures may have been used in sympathetic
magic That is the hunter would have por-
trayed in art the scene he hoped to enact. He
believed that making picture of wounded
bison would put the real bison In his power.
50 that it could not escape his aim.
The bison is skinfully engraved that 1t Is
hard TO believe that the same artist would have
turned out the crude and awkward picture OF
q man and woman found on the other side Of
the bone.
Ia order TO depict the man and woman to-
gether, the artist placed the woman above the
man. At least, so they appear when the bone