May 7, 2006

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Zdenek Burian art at auction

Neanderthals driving ibex over a chasm

A beautiful illustration from a book on auction at Illustration House.

The megafauna sure look charismatic as they’re getting ready to be cooked.

An ibex drive provides a band of Neanderthalers with enough food for several days. The stronger animals clear the chasm but weaker ones plummet to the bottom where they are slain by waiting hunters.

Book illustration: Early Man, by F. Clark Howell; Publisher: (Time-Life Books), 1965, p. 134: The Neanderthal Epoch.

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