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KELIQULE AQUITANKLE. 





B. PLATE XIV. 



All the specimens figured in this Plate were got from the Station of La Made- 

 laine in Dordogne. Similar implements have been found at other Stations in 

 the same district, that of Laugerie Basse, for example, and also in the Cave 

 of Les Eyzies properly so called, not far from the Cro-Magnon Cave. (For 

 similar Harpoons, see B. Plates I. & VI., pages 9, 49, &c.) The caves and 

 rock-shelters of Bruniquel (Tarn et Garonne), of Massat (Ariege), and of 

 Chaffaut (Vienne), have also furnished barbed Harpoons and Arrow-heads. 

 Lastly, among the works of industry collected, during the last twenty years, 

 at a Station (of the Reindeer Age) at the foot of Mont Saleve, in Switzerland, 

 there is a specimen belonging to this type ; it is preserved in the Museum 

 at Geneva. 



We may here refer to what has already been stated (page 95), without, however, 

 definitely limiting the use of these Harpoons to the old Fishermen, that remains 

 of fish are found in the Stations with the barbed implements, and none occur with 

 the lanceolate weapon-heads. 



We have therefore produced this Plate of barbed Harpoon-heads, in sequence to 

 those of a different type, from Cro-Magnon and the Gorge d'Enfer, as offering a 

 convenient contrast of the implements found in these Stations with those from 

 La Madelaine, Laugerie Basse, and other places, where the contemporary Fauna 

 comprises fewer extinct species of Mammals a fact that justifies the chronolo- 

 gical distinction hitherto adopted by Archaeologists for these two phases of the 

 Quaternary Period. 



Fig. 1. A double-barbed Harpoon- or Arrow-head ; bluntly pointed ; armed with 

 six recurved, double-grooved barbs on one side, and five on the other; and 

 furnished with lateral knobs (or an imperfect fillet) just above the tapering butt, 

 which was inserted in the top of the shaft. We see the same fashion adopted 

 in many barbed Weapon-heads from Stations in Dordogne, such as those figured 

 in B. Plates I. & VI., in some from Massat, figured in 'Ann. Sc. Nat.' ser. 4-, 

 vol. xv. pi. 13, figs. 3, 5, and 6, and in modern Esquimaux Implements (see 

 pages 50 and 51). 



This specimen is ornamented with short, curved, longitudinal grooves on its 

 sides, from barb to barb. It has probably been longer and more tapering at 

 the point, and seems to have been roughly repointed after fracture. 



