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Article: The Cover Story: THEY WERE COMMISSIONED FOR NO MORE NOBLE A REASON THAN TO SELL MAGAZINES, BUT THEY HAVE BECOME A TRUE AND ACCURATE RECORD OF HUNTING IN AMERICA.(110th Anniversary)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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Byline: David E. Petzal; Cover Selection By Carol Rheuban
Roughly 25,000 years ago, in a series of deep caves in Spain and France, a number of forever nameless Cro-Magnon geniuses gave us our first works of art. Working by lamplight in otherwise total darkness, they produced images so breathtaking that for many years after their discovery in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many paleontologists thought they were modern fakes.
And what was the first thing that man chose to depict at the very dawn of civilization? It was hunting. Wild bulls, bears, reindeer, and all the other creatures upon which early man depended were rendered in colors that are ...