PREHISTORIC ART. 



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Hundreds of caves and rock shelters have been found throughout west- 

 ern Europe bearing evidence of their human occupation during this jieriod. 

 Many of them are located on the River Vezere, Dordogne. Plate 5 repre- 

 sents a map of the Riv- 

 er Yezere, from Les 

 Eyzies, where it emp- 

 tiesinto the Dordogne 

 River, to Lo iVIoustier, 

 10 kilometers above. 



The principal pre- 

 historic caverns in 

 this neighborhood are 

 LeMoustier, La Made 

 laine, Laugerie Haute 

 and Bassej Gorge 

 d'Enfer, Cro-Magnon, 

 and Les Eyzies, but 

 there are others small- 

 er in size and less in 

 importance. M. E. 

 Riviere discovered a 

 new cave during the 

 summer of 1890. 



In the summer of 1884 the author visited this locality and inspected 

 and worked in some of these caverns. The cavern of Le Moustier has 

 been excavated to the bed rock throughout, and all traces of human 

 occupation in prehistoric times removed. The principal objects of 



human industry found therein 

 were points and scrapers, with 

 cores, flakes, chips, debris, etc. 

 On the plateau at the top of the 

 cliff some of the smaller and finer 

 specimens of the St. Acheuleen 

 type have been found, with 

 chips, cores, and debris. This 

 has been presented as evidence 

 of the relationship between the 

 Chelleen epoch and the INIous- 

 terien, which succeeded it. It 



Fig. 13. 



RUDE CHIPPED IMPLEMENT OF PALEOLITHIC TYPE OF BLACK FLINT. 



Side and edge viewa. 

 Wyoming. 



Cat. Xo. 11535, U.S.X.M. U natural size. 



Fig. 34. 



CHIPPED IMPLEMENT OF PALEOLITHIC 

 BROWNISH-YELLOW JASPER. 



Side and edge views. 

 Wyoming. 



Cat. No. 10543, U.S.N.M. ^ natural size. 



TYPE, 



is remarkable, although alleged 

 to be an undoubted fact, tiiat 

 these two localities, in such jux- 

 taposition, should have fur- 

 nished implements so different in style, type, mode of manufacture, 

 and use, and have represented stages of culture so different. This 

 has been accounted for on the theory of the intervention of the Glacial 

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