CONTENTS OF THE DOTCDOGNE CAVES. 5 



of Les Eyzies and Tayac, and in the neighbouring Communes of Turzac and 

 Peyzac, all belonging to the Arrondissement of Sarlat ; and further descriptions 

 of them and their contents will be given in the sequel. 



At present we will only mention that these different Stations, although within the 

 chronological divisions of the Age of simply worked stone, without the accompa- 

 niment of domestic animals, do not present a uniformity in the products of human 

 industry collected there. 



In fact, at Laugerie Haute (in the Commune of Tayac), on the right bank of 

 the Vezere, where worked flints, like lance-heads, were comparatively abundant, 

 the arrow-heads or harpoon-heads of Reindeer-horn were almost entirely absent ; 

 whilst the latter implements are found in great numbers at Laugerie Basse, 

 at La Madelaine, and even at Les Eyzies, where scarcely any of the flint lance- 

 heads have been met with. 



The figures of animals engraved or sculptured on stone, on bone, or on 

 Reindeer-horn, have appeared only at three Stations as yet, namely, Les Eyzies, 

 Laugerie Basse, and La Madelaine. 



The cave of Moustier, which has yielded worked flints of a special type, and 

 exceptional with respect to the whole range of our explorations, has also 

 furnished a large number of specimens approaching forms frequent in the 

 "Diluvium" of St. Acheul and Abbeville. On the other hand, there has not 

 been found there a single worked bone, or any engraved or sculptured animal- 

 figure. 



Nevertheless the Fauna of the several Stations appears to be almost the same ; 

 only at Moustier the Reindeer is less dominant numerically than at the two 

 Laugeries, at La Madelaine, and at Les Eyzies. 



At all the five Stations have been found separate plates of the molar teeth of 

 Elephant (Mephas primig emus'), the occurrence of which, evidently connected 

 with intentional introduction, we have not yet sought to explain. At two (Les 

 Eyzies and La Madelaine) worked ivory has been met with ; at Laugerie Basse a 

 portion of the pelvis of an Elephant was found. 



As palaeontological peculiarities special to a single locality, we may men- 

 tion : in the Moustier Cave, the half of a lower jaw of Jlycena ; at Les Eyzies, a 

 metacarpal of a large Felis (F. spelcea ?) bearing the marks of scrapings, such as 

 are often found on the bones of the Herbivores eaten by the natives ; at Laugerie 

 Haute we have two molars of the Great Irish Deer ( Cervus euryceros vel Mega- 

 ceros Hibernians) ; and at Laugerie Basse the phalanges of a great Bear, marked 

 with notches made by a cutting instrument. 



