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to them in Auvergne ; and in another, from the cave 

 of Massat (Arriege) (Fig. 81), that the cave -bear was 

 equally known to them in the valleys of the Eastern 

 Pyrenees. Vast quantities of broken and split bones in 

 the German caves show that the latter animal formed 

 a large portion of his food in Germany. Among the 



FIG. 81. Cave-Bear incised on fragment of Schist, Bas-Massat, y. 



perforated teeth found in the cave of Duruthy are 

 canines of the great cave -lion (Fig. 67). The body 

 must have been cut up, and probably also to a large 

 extent eaten on the/spot after the capture of the larger 

 game. For this reason the remains of the mammoth 

 and woolly rhinoceros would naturally be rare in refuse- 

 heaps composed of bones of smaller animals, and to a 

 far less extent of those of the larger, which from their 



