CAVE OF CEO-MAGNON. 



floor of the cavern to a great thickness, at least for 0-70 mfctre (see fig. 41, A), when 

 the Hunters of the Reindeer stopped here for the first time, leaving as a trace of 

 their short stay a blackish layer (fig. 41, B), from 0'05 to 0-15 metre thick, 



Fig. 41. 



Detailed Section of the Cave of Cro-Magnon, near Les Eyzies. (The Section passes through the middle 

 of the Cave, along the line a -/3 of the Plan, fig. 42.) Scale = T -L (1 centimetre to 1 metre). 



S.W. 





A, Debris of the soft limestone. 



B, First layer of ashes &c. 



C, Calcareous debris. 



D, Second layer of ashes &c. 



E, Calcareous debris, reddened by fire under the 



next layer of ashes &c. 



F, Third layer of ashes &c. 



G, lied earth, with bones &c. 



H, Thickest layer of ashes, bones, &c. 

 I, Yellowish earth, with bones, flints, &c. 

 J, Thin bed of hearth-stuff. 



K, Calcareous debris. 



L, Kubbish of the Talus. 



N, Crack in the projecting ledge of rock. 



P, Projecting shelf of hard limestone. 



Y, Place of the pillar made to support the roof. 



a, Tusk of an Elephant. 



b, Bones of an old man. 

 e, Block of gneiss. 



d, Human bones. 



e, Slabs of stone fallen from the roof at different 



times. 



containing worked flints, bits of charcoal, broken or calcined bones, and in its 

 upper portion the Elephant-tusk before alluded to (figs. 41 and 42, a). 



This first hearth is covered by a layer (C), 0-25 metre thick, of calcareous 

 debris, detached bit by bit from the roof, during the temporary disuse of the 



