204 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP.VII. 



another, implies merely a local variation in the fauna. 

 One Eskimo camping ground of the present time is 

 covered with bones of walrus and seal, and another with 

 the remains of musk sheep and reindeer, according to the 

 prevalence of those animals in their respective districts. 

 The remains of the late Pleistocene mammalia occur in 

 the caves of France and of Britain in such an intimate 

 association with the works of man, that no classification 

 based on the mammalia is possible. This view, it must 

 be remembered, is held also by M. de Mortillet. 



Range of the Cave-Men compared with that of the 

 River-drift Men. 



~L The remains of the Cave-men are found throughout 

 the whole of France, and are remarkably abundant in 

 the caverns of the Pyrenees. In Belgium they have been 

 proved by the discoveries of M. Dupont l to be equally 

 abundant in the valleys of the Meuse and of the Lesse. 

 In Switzerland they have been met with in the caverns 

 of Veyrier 2 on the Saleve, of Thayingen 3 near Schaff- 

 hausen, and in various caverns in Germany as far south 

 as Styria. 4 V In Germany, as Professor Fraas points out, 

 the Cave-men frequently hunted the grisly bear as well 

 as the extinct cave-bear^ As yet they are unknown in 



1 UHomme pendant les Ages de la Pierre dans les Environs de Dinant-sur- 

 Meuse, 2d edit., 1872. 



2 A. Perrin, JfattZfl Prehistorique sur la Savoie, texts 8vo, plates 4to, 

 1871, p. 2. 



3 Conrad Merk, Excavations at the Kesslerloch, near Thayingen, Switzer- 

 land, transl. by J. E. Lee ; Longmans, 1876. 



4 Oscar Fraas, Die Alien Hohlenbewohner. Sammlung Gemeinver- 

 standlicher Wissenschaftlicher Vortraye,vu. serie, Heft 168. Von Gimdaker 

 Graf Wurmbrand, Ueber die Hohlen und Grotten in dem Kalkc/ebirge bei 

 Peggau (Styria), 8vo, 1871. 



