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than the massive flints of the river -drift deposits. 

 Camping-places of the Cave-men have been met with in 

 France and in Germany, in which the implements are 

 associated together in the same manner as in the caves. 

 From one of these, at Schussenried in Wtirtemberg, 

 Professor Fraas has described implements of bone and 

 antler in an old refuse-heap resting upon a glacial deposit, 

 formed by an extension of the Alpine glaciers into 

 the valley of the Ehine, and proving that the Cave- 

 men hunted the reindeer in Wtirtemberg after the retreat 

 of the ice from that district. A second example is offered 

 by that of Solutre, mentioned above, where implements 

 of bone and antler, and elegantly chipped flint imple- 

 ments, some very small, have been met with by MM. 

 Ferry, Arcelin, and others. Some caves and rock-shelters 

 also were inhabited by the Eiver-drift men, who have left 

 behind their implements without any trace of the higher 

 types of the Cave-men, although the refuse-heaps of 

 both have been subjected in the main to the same set of 

 destructive agencies. In them the two series present the 

 same contrast in contents as that offered by the imple- 

 ments from the Eiver-drift when compared with those 

 of the caves. The two series must therefore be taken to 

 represent two distinct states of culture, of which the 

 newest, or that of the Cave-men, is by far the higher. 



Mr. Evans 1 is inclined to hold that they belong to 

 the same age and the same race, his argument being 

 principally based upon the fact that the associated 

 animals are the same in the river-deposits and the caves. 

 It must, however, be remarked that the Pleistocene age 

 was of vast duration, and that the latest division of it, 

 during which the animals exhibit no variation, was long 



Ancient Stone Implements, p. 574. 



