549 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. 
the horse; (3) first phalanges of the bison and other ruminants; 
(4) metacarpals and metatarsals of the horse and reindeer; (5) 
fragments of the shafts of long bones. In some cases the bone re- 
sembles a veritable miniature chopping block. In every instance it 
would offer a solid support for an object to be cut, scraped, or 
chipped, as the case might be. 
Similar incisions could have been produced by pressing a flint 
chip or flake against a fresh bone at the proper angle to produce the 
marginal chipping so characteristic of the stone industry at the sta- 
tion in question, as has been noted by M. A. de Mortillet. Since Mar- 
tin’s discovery at La Quina, bones utilized in similar fashion have 
been found by Favraud at Petit-Puymoyen, and Pont-Neuf (Cha- 
Fic. 4.—Flint implements, from the Aurignacian horizon in the cavern of Les Cottés 
(Vienne). 3%. After Breuil, Rey. de l’Ecole d’anthr. de Paris, Vol. 16, p. 56, 1906. 
R. de Rochebrune collection. 
rente), also by Dr. Eugéne Pittard at the Mousterian station of 
Rebiéres (Dordogne). Petit-Puymoyen is of Mousterian age, while 
Pont-Neuf is Aurignacian. 
The rehabilitation of the Aurignacian epoch and the determina- 
tion of its stratigraphic position between the Mousterian and Solu- 
tréan instead of between the Solutréan and Magdalenian, where it 
had been placed for a brief period by G. de Mortillet,¢ is one of the 
special recent contributions to the credit of cavern explorers, Car- 
tailhac and Breuil suggesting that the old name be revived. Once 
and for a long period rejected by the builders it has suddenly become 
one of the chief corner stones in the temple of classification. Its 
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