2 KELIQTILE AQUITANIC^. 



B. BONE IMPLEMENTS, &c. 



B. PLATE XI. 



(The figures are of the Natural Size, but, having been drawn on stone without a 



mirror, are reversed on the Plate.) 



Fig. 1. A series of marine Shells, mostly Littorina littorea*, that have been 

 perforated and strung for use as Necklaces or other ornaments. The other 

 Shells are Pnrpura lapillus, Turritella communis (T. cornea, according to 

 M. Bourguignat), and Fusm Islandicus^. 



About three hundred of these perforated Shells of Littorina were found in 

 the Cave at Cro-Magnon. See pages 71 &c. 



Pigs. 2, 3, and 4. Small ovate flattish plates of Ivory, perforated at one end for 

 suspension. See page 70. 



In the specimen shown by fig. 4, we can see, at the fracture above the two 

 holes, the structure peculiar to Elephant-Ivory, commencing to exfoliate. 

 Other pieces of worked Ivory have been collected in the Cave ; also perforated 

 incisors of a great Ox (Aurochs?). Two of these teeth are in the possession 

 of M. the Cure" of Tayac. 



The majority of the Littorina-shells figured in this Plate have preserved their 

 colours, showing that they were taken alive and used whilst fresh. It is, of 

 course, well known that this species is eaten, at the present day on the Atlantic 

 coasts of Prance and England. The five shells of other species on the same 

 Plate, being quite discoloured and worn, were gathered, we must suppose, on the 

 shore by those who used them. "We may here remark that the old Cave-folk of 

 Cro-Magnon seem to have used for ornament only shells of existing species, 

 whilst those of La Madelaine and Laugerie Basse (see pages 43 and 48, and 

 B. Plate V. figs. 15-20) got fossil shells from the Miocene Paluns of Touraine 

 for the same purpose. 



* According to M. Deshayes these Periwinkle-shells from Cro-Magnon have the aspect of existing 

 varieties of the species now living in the North Sea. 



t This Shell, which M. Bourguignat reminds us must not be confounded with Fusus gracilis (Da Costa), 

 has been figured by our artist with its last whorl too convex and its spire too short. 



