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remains. On the other hand the one 

 station of Solutre (Saone-et-Loire) has 

 furnished skeletal remains of no less 

 than one hundred thousand horses. 

 Moreover in an inventory of Quaternary 

 art the horse leads all with the possible 

 exception of the bison. We are therefore 

 justified in assuming that the steak of 

 horse and bison, and not our indispensa- 

 ble beef steak, was the piece de resistance 

 at all well-regulated palaeolithic feasts. 

 A short distance below Sergeac (Dor- 



dogne) on the left bank of the Vezere is 

 a picturesque little valley cut in the 

 limestone formation by a small brook, 

 Ruisseau des Roches, tributary to the 

 Vezere. This valley is flanked by 

 shelters that have crumbled away until 

 there is now little if any overhang left 

 to the rocks, the entire group being 

 referred to as Station des Roches. Several 

 of these shelters were inhabited by 

 palaeolithic man. 



This region had been partially ex- 



Perforated teeth from the Abri Blanchard (Dordogne), of the Middle Aurignacian Epoch. Exca- 

 vated caverns and rock-shelters yield large numbers of perforated teeth of the cave bear, lion and rein- 

 deer, proving the love of adornment of the Aurignacian people 



