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any better able to explain for what actual use these laminae of teeth 

 thus isolated were intended. 



It is also in the external deposits that we have collected the finest 

 cut flints, especially at that of Laugerie-Haute, which seems to ha^e 

 been the site of a manufactory of those spear-heads cut to little 

 splinters upon both faces, and slightly undulating upon the edges. 

 But it is probable we found there only the refuse of this manufacture^, 

 for few specimens presented themselves in a perfect state among more 

 than a hundred fragments which we have taken out. 



At Laugerie-Basse, half a league down the stream, and still upon 

 the banks of the Vezere, there was probably another workshop for 

 arms and implements of reindeer's horn, to judge from the enormous 

 quantity of remains of horns of that animal which are found accumu- 

 lated there, and which almost without exception bear marks of a 

 sawing, by means of which the pieces intended to be worked up were 

 detached. There in particular we were able to procure, — in addition 

 to arrows and barbed harpoons, which are found in nearly all the 

 deposits of this age, — that great variety of utensils which will be sub- 

 mitted for the inspection of the Academy, and some of which are 

 ornamented with elegant carvings of a workmanship truly astonishing,^ 

 when we consider the means of execution which these tribes could 

 have possessed, unacquainted as they were with the use of metals. 

 You will remark among them those needles of reindeer's horn, finely 

 pointed at one end, and pierced at the other with a hole or eye, in- 

 tended to receive a thread of some kind. 



There are also tools raised at the extremity with blunt notches, 

 which would permit of the conjecture that they were used for making 

 nets. Teeth of sundry animals — the wolf and the ox — pierced at 

 their root, must have served for ornaments, as well as other objects 

 fashioned like ear-drops, sometimes from the ivory part of the eair- 

 bones of the horse or the ox. 



Another object already found by one of us in the vault of Aurignac, 

 respecting which he thought he ought to maintain silence, in spite of 

 the value of an observation as yet unique, is represented at both the 

 stations of Laugerie, and at that of Eyzies. It is a first hollow 

 phalanx of certain herbivorous ruminants, which is pierced artificially 

 beneath, a little in front of its metacarpal or metatarsal joint. On 

 applying the lower lip to the articular hollow, and then blowing into 

 the hole, you obtain a sound resembling that which is produced by a. 



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