Early South Indian Palaeography c8.s2.40

c8.s2.40

There are naturalistic representations by palaeolithic men, in Eastern Spain, giving us a good idea of their way of life with its principal occupation of hunting. "A large number of their pictures are full of excitement and animation". The fighting scene from Galeria del Roble as well as the galloping horse shows, as Leouhard Adams says, "one characteristic feature of Stone Age Painting at its highest development : concentration on what is absolutely essential and omission of all unnecessary detail ”.⁵⁵ And as he believes the original purpose of this and other similar pictures may not have been aesthetic, but rather pictographic.⁵⁶