220 THE MAMMALIA. 



The lower stratum of this remarkable deposit con- 

 tains a whole fauna of larger and smaller mam- 

 mals mammoth, cave tiger, lynx, cave bear, brown 

 bear, cave hyena, wolf, fox, polecat, marten, bad- 

 ger, Canadian deer, primeval ox, horse, hare, and 

 saiga-antelope. All the bones are broken and 

 mixed up together ; and the rude flint implements 

 likewise found there, also point to the fact that the 

 grass-eaters fell victims not only to the teeth of the 

 beasts of prey, but to the hand of huntsmen as 

 well. In the upper strata the mammoth and his 

 huge flesh-eating contemporaries disappear from 

 the scenes. Primeval Man entered the Eeindeer 

 period from the Mammoth period, and thereupon 

 horses were slain by the thousand. 



The opinion which found favour in France that 

 the horse of Solutre had been tamed and domes- 

 ticated is untenable, as has again lately been 

 pointed out by Pietrement, who has carefully con- 

 sidered the question in all its bearings. 1 Never- 

 theless, the horse from Solutre is of great interest, 

 as we most probably have in it one of the races 

 which subsequently became domesticated, and which 

 left descendants that probably still exist. The pieces 



1 Pietrement, Les chcvaux dans Ics temps prchistoriques et 

 liistoriqucs. Paris, 1883. 



