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scrapers, with finely- chipped lance-heads and arrow- 

 heads, similar to those from Cress well Crags (Figs. 47, 

 48) and Solutre ; and those of bone and antler being 

 awls and arrow-heads. At this horizon implements of 

 jasper were exceedingly rare, a core and an arrow-head 

 being the only two mentioned by the discoverer. The 

 animals used for food at this time were principally rein- 

 deer, but there were also the remains of horses, a large 

 ox, and a carnivore. 



These three stages form an exact parallel to those of 

 Cresswell, and imply that in Central France as in Eng- 

 land the most ancient cave-dwellers were in a lower 

 state of civilisation than their successors, and that the 

 sequence of events in England, established by the caves 

 of Cresswell and Kent's Hole, applies equally well to the 

 caverns of the Continent. /^The ruder and more ancient 

 stage of culture is identical with that of the River-drift 

 men, while the higher and newer belongs to that of the 

 Cave-men properly so called.y 



The Subdivisions of the Palaeolithic Age proposed 

 by M. de Mortillet. 



Before we treat of this higher civilisation it will be 

 necessary to give an outline of the classification of the 

 remains from the caverns and river-beds given by the 

 eminent archaeologist M. de Mortillet, 1 by whom they 

 are divided into four stages : 



1. That of the river-drift of St. Acheul, or the 

 " Epoque Acheuleen," defined in the last chapter as the 

 age of the River-drift man. 



1 Mortillet, Classification des Diverses Periodes de TAge de la Pierre, 

 Congr. Int. d'Anthrop. et d'Archeol. Prehist, Brussels, vol. 1872. Evans, 

 Ancient Stone Implements, p. 433 et seq. 



