218 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP.VII. 



(Pliyseter tursio), 1 in which the large head and the 

 position of the pectoral and dorsal fins are very well 



FIG. 83. Whale incised on piece of Antler, Laugcrie Basse, ^. 



indicated. The seals were probably stalked, and the 

 whale was caught on the nearest coast in the Bay of 

 Biscay. We can realise the scene of gluttony which 

 followed the slaughter of whales from the behaviour of 

 the Eskimos under similar circumstances. 



The absence of the remains of seals and whales from 

 the refuse-heaps now within a short distance of the sea 

 is due to the fact that in the late Pleistocene age the 

 Atlantic seaboard was situated far to the west of its 

 present position (see Maps, Figs. 24, 32). The refuse- 

 heaps accumulated near the ancient shore are now sub- 

 merged between the one hundred fathom line and the 

 present coast. There, in all probability, they consisted 

 of as large a percentage of seals, whales, and walruses, 

 as those of the littoral Eskimos of the present day. 

 The hunters who engraved these marine animals carried 

 their sketches along with them in their migration inland, 

 in the one case as far as Oloron, and in the other into 

 Auvergne. 



Fowling. 



The Cave-men were expert fowlers, as is shown by 

 the many kinds of birds identified by Professor Alfonse 

 Milne-Edwards, 2 from the refuse-heaps of Central and 



1 Compare the figures given by Rev. J. G. Wood of the recent whales, 

 Natural History, pp. 5 3 1 , 5 3 5. 2 Eel A q. , p. 2 2 6. 



