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I)osed to have had any utility. Of the implements mteuaed for use 

 and thus decorated, the batons de commandement are in the greatest 

 number; then dagger points of deer and antelope horn, and the handles 

 of poniards. The Musee St. Germain possesses one hundred and 

 sixteen objects of the art of ihis epoch. Among these are twenty-nine 

 batons de commandement, twenty-two daggers of antelope or deer horn, 

 and live handles of poniards; total of these specimens fifty-six, or 

 about one-half the entire art collection of that museum. The rest 

 are either objects of unknown use or else sketches not intended for 

 any use. 



The United States National Museum possesses one hundred and fifty- 

 six specimens, originals and casts, belonging principally to the Wilson 

 collection. 



LOCALITIES. 



Be it understood that only those stations or caverns in which art 

 objects have been found can be reported. We can easily believe that 

 there are many wherein they exist but have not yet been discovered. 



Industrial objects and iui[)lements are found associated with the art 

 objects, and consequently were made by and belonged to the same 

 people, and these are disseminated throughout western Europe in 

 almost every locality occn])ied by Paleolithic man. These localities 

 extended from the Pyrenees to central England and from the Atlantic 

 Ocean to northeastern Switzerland. Divided according to depart- 

 ments in Fiance, cantons in Switzerland, and shires in England, the 

 distribution, with the names of the principal caverns containing this 

 art work, is as follows: 



Beginning with the department of Dordogne, which has furnished 

 about one-third of the number found, the caverns are: La Madelaine, 

 Laugerie Basse, Laugerie Haute, Gorge d'Enfer, les Eyzies, Cor- 

 nac; Mayenne — Cave IMargot; Vieiine — Cottes, Chaffaud; Charente — 

 Chaise, Montgaudier, Placard; Tarn-et-Garonne — Bruniquel; Laiides — 

 Sordes; Haute Pyrenees — Auresan, Lortet; Haute Garonne — Gourdan ; 

 Allier — Massat, Yache; Aude — Bize; Gard — Pont du Gard; Haute 

 Savoy — Sali've; Schaft'hausen, Switzerland — Thayingen; Arrondisse- 

 nient de Dinant, Belgium — Goyet, trou Magrite; Derbyshire, Eng- 

 land — Cresswell. 



Discoveries of x>aleolithic art are being continuously made in western 

 Euro])e, thus demonstrating the correctness of former conclusions and 

 the genuineness of former discoveries as well as the long and extensive 

 human occupation in paleolithic times. Some of those reported since 

 the writing of the foregoing chapter are that of M. Julieii of the statuette 

 in steatite of a woman in the caverns of Montone, now in the museum 

 of St. Germain, reported by Solomon Reinach ; ' that of E. Riviere in the 

 grotto of la Mouthe, Commune de Tayac, near Les Eyzies, Dordogne, 

 wherein the art work consisted principally of carvings of animals on 



*L' Anthropologic, 1898, p. 2G, plates i, ii. 



