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evidence of the existence of two deposits, a lower, resting on the 
 stalagmite floor, composed of sand and angular fragments of the 
surrounding rock; and an upper, composed of a sandy loam. The 
lower one yielded many flint implements and fragments of charcoal, 
with bones of Felis, Canis, Cervus, Lupus, &c. In its deepest part 
the author found a human skull and lower jaw, but these he regards 
as having been buried at a subsequent period. The upper deposit 
contained a large number of fragmentary human bones, and numerous 
polished stone celts, flint flakes, bone instruments, &c., anda bronze 
arrow-head in its lowest part, which had probably been buried there. 
The fragmentary condition of the human bones, which had been 
cut and scraped, the long bones having also been split, appears to 
show that the author is right in regarding the cave as a burial- 
place of a tribe of cannibals. Bones of the wolf, fox, a dog, horse, 
deer, sheep, &c., coarse pottery marked with lines or rows of dots, 
shells pierced for ornaments, and other objects, were also found. 
The other caves yielded remains similar to those obtained from this 
upper deposit, one of them yielding in addition a portion of the 
lower jar of Ursus arctos. If the author’s determination of this 
relic be accurate, it is the most important animal remain which these 
caves have as yet yielded. 
While on the subject of bone-caves we should notice the publi- 
cation of the fifth part of the ‘Reliquiz Aquitanice.’ It contains 
the conclusion of Professor Rupert Jones’s geological sketch of the 
Vézere, figures and descriptions of a number of flint implements, 
and a most interesting essay by Mr. A. C. Anderson, “On the Re- 
semblance of many of the Dordogne Works of Art to the Imple- 
ments used by the North American Tribes, either now or at some 
former period.” .This resemblance is in many instances very striking, 
and suggests two questions for consideration, namely: (1), Are the 
uses for which the implements were made the same, or analogous, in 
both cases? and (2), Does the resemblance imply any affinity be- 
tween the tribes? The first question will probably receive an 
affirmative reply from almost any antiquary; but the answers to 
the second would probably show great diversity of opinion. We 
shall only quote a sentence from Mr. Anderson, as an indication of 
one class of opinions :—“I believe that, under similar circumstances 
and conditions of things, isolated branches of the human race will 
arrive, in simple matters of domestic or offensive art, at nearly similar 
conclusions, each independently of the other.” 
Dr. Geinitz has given a useful summary of the objects exhibited 
in the Paris Exhibition of last year in relation to the Antiquity of 
Man, in the second number of the ‘ Neues Jahrbuch’ for this year. 
The reported occurrence of traces of human work in Miocene de- 
posits is not regarded by him as having been yet proved to the 
satisfaction of critical antiquaries and naturalists. 
