110 EELIQUI^E AQTJITANHLE. 



obtained by M. Garrigou from that cave of Massat : they were exhibited in the 

 Exhibition of the History of Labour at Paris in 1867. 



The cave of Lourdes (Hautes Pyre'ne'es), containing many remains of the 

 Reindeer, has furnished only two coarse Needles, having an oblong head and eye, 

 not pierced by boring, but rather by cutting with a sharp instrument. One of 

 these needles has been illustrated by M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, in his note on 

 the works of man found in this cave of Lourdes*. The eye of this coarse needle 

 is broken half off, as shown in the illustration referred to. 



In the cave of Veyrier, at the foot of Mount Saleve, which belongs, like those 

 of Les Eyzies, La Madelaine, Laugerie Basse, &c., to the artistic portion of the 

 Reindeer Period, and where have been found antlers of this ruminant on which 

 some figures of animals and plants are engraved, MM. Alphonse Favret and 

 Thioly j have noticed the discovery of Sewing-needles, one of which, according to 

 M. Thioly, seems to be of ivory. 



In the cavern of Aurignac (Haute Garonne), however, in that of Les Fe"es 

 (Allier), and at the station of the Gorge d'Enfer, where the remains of the Rein- 

 deer are less abundant, and at the same time the Quaternary fauna is more 

 completely represented by extinct species, the eyed Needles have not as yet 

 been met with. They seem to be represented by simple awls, made of bone, or 

 perhaps of ivory. We may add that in the Stations above named the probably 

 older lanceolate weapon-heads occxir in place of those of the barbed type (see 

 above, p. 94, and p. 95). 



We know that eyed needles of bone have been discovered in several of the 

 ancient lacustrine habitations in Switzerland. M. Delfortrie has noticed some in 

 a Station (of the Polished-Stone Period) which he has explored, even in the town 

 of Bordeaux; and we must remember that a considerable number have been 

 found at the Gaulish Stations of Alise, Corent, and Gergovia in Auvergne. But 

 in general these needles, though belonging to times comparatively more recent, 

 are far from being as well shaped as those of the Artistic Epoch of the Reindeer 

 Age. 



It may well be supposed that, in the same region of Asia where the art of 

 embroidery in historic times was carried to high perfection, the use of the acus 

 Phrygia and the acus Babylonia (see above, p. 128) must in more remote antiquity 



* "De Pexistence de 1'homme pendant la periode quaternaire dans la grotte do Lourdes," &c., 'Ann. des 

 So. Nat.' ^""serie, Zoologie, vol. xvii. 1862, p. 243, pi. 6. fig. 3. 



t ' Station de 1'homme de 1'age de la pierre a Veyrier, prus de Geneve,' 1868. 

 + ' L'Epoque du Benne an pied du mont Saleve,' 1868. 



