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classification adopted is that of Kenyon and Stirling (Royal Society of Victoria, 
vol. xiii, n.s. 1901), with such modifications as later discoveries have rendered 
necessary. This system is founded primarily on use, though form has to be 
relied upon in instances where use is merely conjectural. 
(6) Conclusion.—In Australia at least the type of implement prevailing is no 
reliable index to the type of man who fashioned it, or to his stage of culture, 
or to his period of existence. But for the undeniable evidence as to the con- 
temporary nature of the various camps, the conclusion would be justified that 
they are the remains of former inhabitants of neolithic, paleolithic, and, to 
coin a term, protolithic ages. 
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18. 
The following Papers were read :— 
1. Some Halensions of Eurly Slone Age Cullure. 
By H. Baurour, M.A. 
2. Recent Excavation of a Paleolithic Cave in Jersey. 
By R. R. Marert, M.A., D.Sc. 
During the past three years fruitful exploration of the cave known as La 
Cotte de St. Brelade, on the south coast of Jersey, has taken place, and the 
results were laid by me before the British Association at the Portsmouth, 
Dundee, and Birmingham Meetings. This year for the first time the British 
Association has taken an active share in the work by making a grant of 50/., and 
appointing a Committee of control. This latest chapter in the history of the 
excavation may fairly claim to have broken all previous records. 
Hitherto the Mousterian floor had been cleared only along the west side of the 
cave, where about twenty-five feet of superincumbent débris had to be removed. 
It was now resolved to carry the clearing across the mouth to the east side, 
though this involved the demolition of an overlying mass of no less than forty 
feet, weighing approximately a ton to every square foot of floor exposed. Con- 
siderable risk from falling stones had to be faced, but only one accident 
occurred, and that fortunately not very serious. 
As the east limit was approached, the floor of ancient occupation increased in 
thickness; so that near the wall, which was found to be undercut by a con- 
siderable cavity forming a sort of side-chamber, as much as twelve feet of hearth- 
deposits, rich in bones and implements, were encountered. 
Among the bones a rough preliminary survey reveals the presence of mam- 
moth, woolly rhinoceros, the great Irish elk, reindeer, red deer, roe deer, wild 
ox, wild horse, wild goat, cave-hyzena, fox, arctic lemming, and a species of 
grouse. We have here, then, a thoroughly representative pleistocene fauna of the 
cold, or tundra, type. 
_ The number of implements obtained may be gathered from the fact that they 
exceeded three cwt. in sheer weight. It will take months of study to do justice 
to the wealth of types which they embody. As far as can be made out at 
present, the Mousterian facies prevails throughout, though it remains to be 
seen whether it will prove possible to differentiate in regard to style of workman- 
ship the products of the various levels of the floor. In the meantime it may 
be pointed out that the characteristic ‘point’ was found at all levels; though 
one of these, gathered at the lowest level, was worked on both sides, thus 
suggesting the technique of an earlier period. Among the smaller implements a 
certain number appeared to be notched towards the base, as if they had once 
been provided with a handle or shaft. There was a great variety of hammer- 
stones, mostly of granite, and of split pebbles, mostly of diabase, some of which 
had clearly been used as polishers. Altogether, this site is so rich that it may 
well come to be treated as the locus classicus for the determination of the leading 
forms of the Mousterian culture; more especially as, to judge from the thickness 
of the implementiferous bed, and the occurrence of double patination upon 
