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20 AURIGNAC. 



13. Ass?* (E. asinus) 1 



14. Boar (Sus scrofa). Two incisors. 



15. Stag (Cervus daplius] 1 



16. Irish Elk (Megaceros liibernicus) ... 1 



17. Roe (C. capreolus) 3 4 



18. Reindeer (C. tarandus) 10 12 



19. Aurochs (Bison Europceus) 12 15 



Some of these were found in the grotto, others outside ; the 

 latter had been gnawed by some large carnivorous animal, no 

 doubt the hyaena, coprolites of which were found among the 

 ashes. On the other hand, the bones inside the cave were 

 untouched, from which M. Lartet concludes that after the 

 funeral feasts, hyaenas came and devoured all that had been 

 left by the men, but that they could not effect an entrance 

 into the cave on account of the large block of stone by which 

 the entrance was closed, and which was actually found in its 

 place by Bonnemaison. 



In addition to the hyaena, the animals occurring in this list, 

 and yet no longer existing, or known historically to have 

 existed in France, are the reindeer, cave-bear, rhinoceros, cave- 

 lion, Irish elk, and mammoth. The contemporaneity of the 

 reindeer with man is very evident ; all the bones are broken 

 for marrow, and many bear the marks of knives, besides 

 which, the greater number of the bone implements are made 

 out of the bones or horns of this species. That the rhinoceros 

 also was contemporaneous with man is inferred by M. Lartet, 

 firstly, on chemical grounds, the bones of this species, as well 

 as those of the reindeer, aurochs, etc., having retained the 

 same amount of nitrogen as the human bones from the same 

 locality ; and secondly, because the bones appear to have 

 been broken by man, and in some cases are marked by knives. 

 Moreover, he has ingeniously pointed out that these bones 



* This is, I presume, a small variety of horse, and not the true ass. 

 The query is in the original. 



