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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



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living, enable us to throw our minds back into those 

 remote times, and realise the life and surroundings of 

 the Cave-man.) We will first deal with his dwellings. 



The place for an encampment was generally chosen 

 either under the shelter of a rock or at the mouth of a 



FIG. 73. Section across the Valley of the Vezere, through the Rock-Shelter 

 of Cro-Magnon. 



cavern, and in some cases, as, for example, in that of Cro- 

 Magnon 1 in the valley of the Vezere (Fig. 73), the same 

 spot was inhabited from time to time for a long series of 

 years, until it was no longer habitable from the accumu- 

 lations on the floor. In Fig. 74, the letters B, D, F, H, 

 and J, represent successive deposits of charcoal, flint 

 implements, and broken bones, which have resulted 

 from successive occupations, continued until the debris 

 reached to within about a foot of the roof. This 

 section is further interesting because it shows the true 

 relation of the human bones, b d, to the Palaeolithic 

 refuse-heaps. It will be seen that they rest at the 

 further end of the cave in debris overlying the refuse- 

 heaps, and that therefore they are later than the Palaeo- 



1 Lartet and Christy, Eeliquice Aquitonicce, 4to, p. 66. 



