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primeval art than the glare of electric light in this realm of
eternal night. Flares or small stone lamps burning animal
fat, of which examples have been found, permit one to
obtain only fragmentary glimpses of the colors and lines
of the objects depicted. In such a soft, flickering light
these take on an almost magical movement. The
engraved lines, and even the colored surfaces, lose their
intensity under a strong light and sometimes disappear
altogether. Only in this way can the fine veining of the
drawings be seen unsmothered by their rough
background.
Maybe enough has now been said to show that
prehistoric man did not associate the caverns with
architecture. In his view the caverns simply provided him
with places that he could use for his magic arts. He