By Hugo Obermaier and Herbert Kühn
Based on the photographic material collected by Reinhard Maack
Published by Oxford University Press, 1930
Foxed.
Rare with dust jacket.

Hugo Obermaier (29 January 1877, in Regensburg – 12 November 1946, in Fribourg) was a distinguished Spanish-German prehistorian and anthropologist who taught at various European centres of learning. Although he was born in Germany, he was later naturalized as a Spanish citizen in 1924. He is particularly associated with his work on the diffusion of mankind in Europe during the Ice Age, and in connection with north Spanish cave art, and resisted placing his science at the disposal of nationalistic and racialist interests in the Germany of the 1930s

Herbert Kühn (29 April 1895 in Beelitz - 25 June 1980 in Mainz ) was a German prehistorian , religious scholar , art historian , and philosopher who developed a stylistic theory of prehistoric art and made a particular contribution to the study of rock art (cave paintings ) and archaeology of the Migration Period . For a long time, he was considered one of the best experts on the culture of the last ice age and its artistic legacy.

Reinhard Maack (2 October 1892 – 26 August 1969) was a German explorer, geologist, and geographer.

Maack was born in Herford. While he was working as a surveyor and the headmaster of Windhoek school in central Namibia, he discovered 'The White Lady' rock painting in 1918. Maack was at the time convinced that the art had a distinct European style, and this view was upheld by various prominent archaeologists of the day.

'The White Lady' has been controversially dated from 6,000 to 20,000 years old. It was discovered in Namibia and was supposedly of European (or as was more specifically speculated, Mediterranean) origin. The controversial date meant that the whole theory of the "cradle of civilization" being in east or central Africa was thrown into chaos.[1]

White Lady rock painting, Brandberg, Namibia, discovered by Maack in 1918.

Maack died in Curitiba, Brazil, aged 76.