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was filled with cUlris up to the very roof, and it appears that 

 the accumulation of material was partly due to the disintegra- 

 tion of the dolomitic conglomerate forming the roof and walls 

 of the cavern, and partly to the sediment washed in gradually 

 by rain and small streams. It is evident that the bones 

 and stones were not brought into the cave by the action of 

 water; firstly, because none of the bones are at all rolled; 

 secondly, because, though several rude flint implements were 

 found in the cave, only one single umuorked flint was met with ; 

 and thirdly, because, in some cases, fragments of the same 

 bone have been found close together, while, if they had been 

 brought from a distance, it is almost incredible that they 

 should have been again deposited close to one another. Again, 

 there are several layers one over the other of album grsecum, 

 that is to say, the excrement of hysenas, each of which indi- 

 cates, of course, an old floor, and a separate period of occu- 

 pation ; so that the presence of, at least, one such floor above 

 some of the flint implements, proves two things ; firstly, that 

 the hysenas which produced the album grrecurn occupied the 

 cave after the savages who used the flint instruments; and, 

 secondly, that these implements have not been disturbed by 

 water since the period of the hysena. 



During the last years of his life, Mr. Christy examined 

 and described, in conjunction with M. Lartet, with great care 

 a number of small caves and rock-shelters in the Dordogne, 

 some of which had already attracted the attention of archaeo- 

 logists.* These caves are particularly interesting, because, so 

 far at least as we can judge from the present state of the 

 evidence, the remains found in them belong to M. Lartet's 

 reindeer period, and tend, therefore, to connect the later Stone 

 or Neolithic Age with the period of the river-drifts and the 

 great extinct mammalia ; representing a period about which 



* De 1'Origine et de 1'Enfance des Arts en Perigord. Par M. lAbbe 

 Audieme. 



