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served besides as the vestibule to a con- 
siderable cave, famous for its mural art. 
An examination of the various Dor- 
dogne shelters coupled with a study of 
the changing types of objects found in 
them is most instructive. Nearly all of 
the stations here are at the base of the 
high cliffs that hedge the narrow valleys 
on one or both sides; but in a few in- 
stances the relic-bearing débris lies on 
an eroded ledge some distance up the 
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defy the English in 1410; still another 
ledge marked by ruins of what looks like 
some old baronial chateau; and end up 
finally with the more or less well-kept 
houses of the modern peasant. These 
houses often stand on several meters of 
ancient relic-bearing débris and seem to 
cling in an infantile sort of way to the 
overhanging cliff in spite of its cold 
damp nature. Some distance up the 
Vézére, at the Rock of St. Cristopher, 
Anniversary occasion (July 20) of the discovery of the Tuc d’Audoubert cavern. 
thusiastic sons who made the discovery of the famous modeled bison. 
The amia- 
ble Count Begouen is seated in the center while behind him and on the extreme left are his three en- 
Professor Emile Cartailhac 
is seen to the left of the Count and on the right are two French zodlogists, students of the cave fauna 
face of the protecting wall. Almost 
within earshot of Les Eyzies are a series 
of stations which taken together furnish 
data on human history practically from 
Acheulian times to the present day. 
These stations begin with the old ob- 
scured shelter of La Micoque, include 
the partially-ruined shelters of Upper 
and Lower Laugerie; another ledge- 
shelter that served old-time brigands as 
a rendezvous and also as a fortress to 
where the last houses have been removed, 
there are over four meters of débris 
dating from neolithic to present time 
and the adjacent cliff is marked by sev- 
eral series of parallel holes, cut for the 
insertion of ceiling beams, precisely as 
we find them in our own Southwest. 
Some of these holes are high up the 
cliff but others are below the surface 
of the accumulated débris which is itself 
below the high-water mark of the river. 
