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presence is reported from many localities both in loess deposits and 
in caverns. 
Aurignacian industry is characterized by blade-like flint flakes 
with one end chipped obliquely and the back worked down (rabattu) 
for its entire length; flakes chipped along both margins and produc- 
ing in some instances hour-glass forms; the appearance of two types 
of bone implements, (1) scrapers terminating in an oblique edge and 
(2) points with cleft base; the beginnings of sculpture, engraving, 
and painting, and, according to Rutot at least, the dawn of ceramic 
art. In respect to fauna, this is the epoch in which the reindeer 
first becomes prominent. The cave bear, horse (abundant), hyena, 
and mammoth are also well represented. The direct superposition 
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ic. 5.—Points with cleft base, from the Aurignacian horizon, cavern of Les Cottés 
(Vienne). 3%. Material, ivory and reindeer horn. After Breuil, Rev. de Il’Heole 
d’anthr. de Paris, Vol. 16, p. 54, 1906. R. de Rochebrune collection. 
of the Aurignacian on the Mousterian is seen to good advantage in 
the caverns of Grimaldi, at Pair-non-Pair (Gironde), Spy (Bel- 
gium), Chatelperron (Allier), La Quina (Charente), and Les Cottés 
(Vienne). On the other hand, the superposition of the Solutréan 
on the Aurignacian has been noted at a number of stations including: 
Cro-Magnon, Combe-Capelle, Le Ruth and Laussel (Dordogne), 
Solutré (Sadne-et-Loire), Lacoste II near Brive (Corréze), grotte 
du roc, commune of Sers (Charente), Sirgenstein (Wiirttemberg), 
Ofnet (Bavaria), and Carmago and Hornos de la Pefia, both in the 
Province of Santander, Spain. 
By reason of its bearing on the relation between cavern culture and 
the glacial period, one of the most important paleolithic discoveries 
