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worked antlers, ornamented also with well-engraved figures of animals and plants ; 

 and moreover in the same Cave remains of eyed needles and barbed harpoons 

 occur. Lastly, the Station of Schussenried, in Wurtemberg, has also furnished 

 two specimens* of the same kind of implements, con- 

 sisting of antlers in the rough state and not ornamented, 

 but pierced, like the others, one with two, and the other 

 with a single hole, near the base. 



It seems, then, that in the Chipped-Stone or Palaeo- 

 lithic Period there were distinct epochs, characterized 

 by the palaeontological aspect of the Fauna, by the 

 progress of art and industry, and, lastly, by the intro- 

 duction of new habits and customs. 



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Fig. 1. This was the shed antler of a young Reindeer, 

 or perhaps of a doe, judging from the small size of the 

 base. The stem or beam has been cut away laterally, 

 so as to present two flat faces, the convex edge of 

 which still bears the bases of three truncated branches 

 at unequal distances. The stem appears to have lost 

 some of its length by an old fracture. The convex 

 edge is ornamented, or at least marked, with a scoring 

 of numerous (thirty-three), slight, transverse notches 

 some at equal distances apart, some more widely sepa- 

 rated, and a few in pairs (see Woodcut, fig. 20). The 

 two broad and flat surfaces are grooved with two chief 

 lines from base to top ; and secondary groovings fol- 

 low the contours of the projecting stumps. Four 

 holes, of unequal diameters, are pierced in the wide 

 portion, from the brow-antler to the third branch or 

 " royal " above. Four is the greatest number of 

 holes we have yet met with in these implements (see 

 also B. Plate III. & IV. fig. 5). 

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* These two specimens were exhibited in the Universal Exposition at Paris in 1867 (Mortillet'a ' Mate- 

 riaux,' vol. iii. p. 254). See also Mortillet's ' Materiaux,' vol. ii. p. 555, vol. iii. pp. 253 and 427, and vol. iv. 

 p. 198, for notices of the excavations at Schussenried. 



