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This rectilinear ornament seems to have come from Central Europe with te Beaker Folk, and is in strong contrast to the spiral designs brought from the Mediterranean by the megalith builders. A combination of the two traditions is found on the strange little chalk cylinders from Yorkshine, one of which has a concentric horseshoepattern that resembles the round eyes and face of an owl. A few wooden figures of men, some of them four or five feet high and probably of the sixth century B C, have survived, but the art of the Bronze Age people was essentially abstract and ornamental, unlike the naturalistic painting and scuilp-ture of their remote ancestors, the Palaeolithic hunters.
