CHAP, vn.] CIVILISATION OF CAVE MEN. DWELLINGS. 207 



lithic occupation of the cavern, to which they are con- 



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FIG. 74. Detailed Section of Cro-Magnon. 



sidered to belong by M. Louis Lartet and the editors of 

 Reliquiae Aquitanicce. 



" (^ These caverns and rock-shelters are to be looked upon 

 as places of periodic resort, like the winter huts of the 

 Eskimos7) between Eschscholtz Bay and the river 

 Mackenzie. That this was the case, at all events in 

 Great Britain, is proved by the intimate association of 

 the gnawed bones of animals brought in by the hyaenas, 

 with the traces of human occupation which has been 

 pointed out in the Cresswell caves. When a cave was ,/ 

 deserted by man, it was immediately taken possession of 

 by the wild beasts whom he had temporarily dislodged. 

 The Cave-men did not always use caves and rock- 

 shelters for their camps. The large accumulations of 



