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sixty-eight centimeters in length, is cut 

 rather deeply into the slab, the surface 

 of which is rough and irregular and had 

 never been prepared in advance for the 

 engraving. Among the tools used by Au- 

 rignacian artists were a variety of gravers 

 made by beveling one or both ends of a 

 bladelike flint flake. The work here 

 was evidently done by a larger, heavier 

 tool than the ordinary graver, as the 



incisions are not only deep, but also 

 broad. Flint tools that might well have 

 served to do the cutting were found in 

 the same station [page 237]. The size of 

 the tool and the irregularity of the sur- 

 face account in some measure for the 

 apparent crudity of the drawing, which 

 might have been considered as belonging 

 to an early rather than a late phase of 

 Aurignacian engraving. 



Flint perforators of Middle Aurignacian Age. I^From Abri Blanchard des Roches (Dordogne) 



