558 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. 
The station of La Micoque, some 2 kilometers to the northwest. of 
Les Eyzies, although discovered in 1895, should be mentioned in this 
connection because of recent excavations by Hauser and others. 
Cartailhac and Hauser believe it to have been protected originally by 
an overhanging rock. According to Rutot it was always, as it now 
appears to be, a station in the open. The industry is Mousterian, 
with traces of a ruder paleolithic facies at the bottom and Aurig- 
nacian at the top. 
“One of the latest additions to the long list is the rock-shelter of Le 
Rut, about half a mile below the celebrated station of Le Moustier 
and on the same side of the Vézére River, excavated in 1907 by D. 
Fic. 10.—Engraving of Ursus spelaeus, from the cavern of La Mairie, Teyjat. After 
Capitan and Breuil, C. r., Congr. intern. d’anthr. et d’arch. préhs., vol. 1, p. 391, 
Monaco, 1906. 
Peyrony. The section at Le Rut overlaps and supplements that of 
Laussel. It begins with the middle and upper Aurignacian, above 
which are added three Solutréan horizons and one Magdalenian. 
Other regions of the Dordogne have not been neglected. The 
cavern of La Mairie and the rock-shelter of Meége, both at Teyjat, 
are near Javerlhac, a railway station on the line between Nontron and 
Angouléme. Some twenty years ago M. Perrier du Carne found in 
La Mairie cavern Magdalenian implements and five remarkable en- 
gravings on stone representing the horse and the bison. In 1903 
three groups of engravings (fig. 10) were discovered on the walls 
of the cavern, and during the same year the rock-shelter of Mége in 
