326 MM. Lartet and Christy on the Existence of Man 
At Laugerie-Basse, about a third of a mile lower down, but 
still upon the banks of the Vezére, there was probably another 
factory of weapons and tools in reindeer-horns, if we may judge 
from the enormous quantity of the remains of horns of this ani- 
mal accumulated there, nearly all of which bear traces of sawing, 
by means of which the pieces intended to be worked up were | 
detached. It is there especially that we have procured, besides 
arrows and barbed harpoons (such as occur in nearly all the 
stations of this age), that great variety of utensils, some of which 
are adorned with elegant sculptures, the workmanship of which 
is truly astonishing when we consider the means of execution 
which could be possessed by these people, who were ignorant of 
the use of metals. Amongst them are some needles of reindeer’s 
horn, finely pointed at one extremity, and pierced at the other 
with a hole or eye for the reception of a thread of some kind. 
There are also some tools furnished at their extremity with 
obtuse notches, which would lead one to suspect that they were 
employed in the manufacture of nets. Teeth of various animals 
(wolf, ox), perforated at the root, must have served as ornaments, 
as also some other objects fashioned like ear-drops, sometimes 
of the ivory-like part of the ear-bones of the horse and ox. 
Another object, previously found by one of us at the burying- 
place of Aurignac, and upon which he thought it as well to say 
nothing (distrusting the value of an observation still unique), 
has occurred both at Laugerie and in the grotto of Les Eyzies, 
It is a first phalanx, which is hollow in certain ruminants, and 
which is here pierced artificially beneath, a little in front of its 
metatarsal or metacarpal articulation. By placing the lower lip 
in the posterior articular cavity, and blowing into the hole, a 
sharp sound, like that given by a key-pipe of moderate size, is 
produced. This was, no doubt, a call-whistle, in common use 
amongst these tribes of hunters; for we have now four speci- 
mens, of which three are made of phalanges of the reindeer, and 
the fourth of a phalanx of the chamois. 
At Laugerie-Basse, also, thanks to the intelligent supervision 
and minute precautions of M. A. Laganne, who had the manage- 
ment of our diggings, we have obtained portions of reindeer- 
horn which, notwithstanding the alteration that they have 
undergone by age, still retain very distinct representations of 
animal forms. Some of them are simply engraved in outline 
upon the palmature or terminal expansion of the frontal antlers 
of the reindeer; others are regularly sculptured, either in bas-. 
relief or even in complete relief, upon portions of the horn of 
the same animal prepared for this purpose. 
One of these palmations, of which an ancient fracture has 
caused the loss of a portion of the design, still presents us with 
