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should it be possible to establish this race, it is to it that we must 

 assign the more perfectly fashioned implements of the later 

 Palaeolithic age; they also made use of bone for various 

 purposes, sometimes ornamenting their bone tools with consider- 

 able skill ; the engravings on bone found in some of the caves of 

 the Vezere — the Madeleine amongst others — and in Belgium and 

 elsewhere, may be attributed to these men ; they were contem- 

 poraries, as were their predecessors, of the Pleistocene animals, 

 and seem at any rate for the most part to have disappeared 

 with them. A very short race is said to have followed the 

 men of Cromagnon, named after the caverns of Furfooz in 

 Belgium : their civilization seems to have been of a lower 

 character, although they possessed the art of making pottery. 

 The Reindeer and the Glutton appear to have been still 

 existing, their bones having been found with those of these 

 men. 



The evidence of there having been successive periods in the 

 history of Palaeolithic man has been pointed out by M. de 

 Mortillet, who has shown that whereas the remains of his 

 workmanship in some caves, such for instance as that of 

 Moustier, are of an extremely rude type, approaching closely 

 in character to that of the implements of the river gravels, in 

 others, of which Solutre is given as a type, the implements 

 are marked by a higher finish and greater differentiation. 



The only continental cave that has shown, as far as I am 

 aware, an actual succession of deposits exhibiting the traces 

 of a chronological advance in art distinctly marked, is the 

 Grotte de l'Eglise at Excideuil, a cave in the limestone of the 

 Great Oolite, on the banks of the Loiie in Dordogne. M. Parrot, 

 who explored this interesting cavern, has been kind enough to 

 send me the report of his discoveries there, and from this it 

 appears that at varying depths in the floor were found asso- 

 ciated remains of the Pleistocene fauna with the implements 

 of man. In the lowest bed, in conjunction with bones of the 

 Reindeer, Cave Bear, and Bison (the first of the animals being 

 only found feebly represented in the uppermost parts of this 



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