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a greater variety of animal remains. The lion had 

 disappeared, and instead hyenas haunted the cave, 

 and had dragged in animal bones to be gnawed. 

 These included remains of the cave bear, wolf, 

 rhinoceros, mammoth, wild horse, wapiti, Irish stag, 

 chamois, reindeer, wild ox, besides several smaller 



CAVE OF GOYET, BELGIUM (section after Dupont) 

 i to 5, layers of clay deposited in the mammoth ages 



anima-ls. The above animals are now all unknown 

 in the fauna of modern Europe, except the reindeer, 

 the chamois, and the wolf. But the most remarkable 

 discovery on this surface was that of a few human 

 bones, gnawed like the others by the hyenas. Man 

 was thus already in the country, and contemporary 



