196 THE STONE AGE — PAST AND PRESENT. 



there is no sufficient evidence. Again, a stone instrument, 

 found in a cave at Betlileliem, does not differ specifically from 

 the Drift type. 



With the Unground Stone Age of the Drift, that of the 

 Bone Caves is intimately connected. In the Drift, geological 

 evidence shows that a long period of time must have been re- 

 quired for the accumulation of the beds which overlie the flint 

 implements, for the cutting out of the valleys to their present 

 state, and so on, since the time when the makers of these rude 

 tools and weapons inhabited France and England in company 

 with the Rhhioceros tichorhiniis, the mammoth, and other 

 great animals now extinct. In the Bone Caves this natural 

 calendar of strata accumulated and removed is absent, but 

 their animal remains border on the fauna of the Drift, and the 

 Drift series of stone implements passes into the Cave series,' 

 so that the men of the Drift may very well be the makers of 

 some Cave implements contemporaneous with the great quater- 

 nary mammals. 



The explorations made with such eminent skill and success 

 in the caverns of M. Perigord by Mr. Lartet and Christy,^ bring 

 into view a wonderfully distinct picture of rude tribes inhabit- 

 ing the south of France, at a remote period characterized by a 

 fauna strangely different from that at present belonging to the 

 district, the reindeer, the aurochs, the chamois, and so forth. 

 They seem to have been hunters and fishers, having no domes- 

 ticated animals, not even the dog ; but they made themselves 

 rude ornaments, they sewed with needles with eyes, and they 

 decorated their works in bone, not only with hat-^-hed and waved 

 patterns, but with carvings of animals done with considerable 

 skill and taste. Yet their stone implements were ver}^ rude, 

 to a great extent belonging to absolute Drift types, and desti- 

 tute of grinding, with one curious set of exceptions, certain 

 granite pebbles with a smooth hollowed cavity, some of which 

 resemble stones used by the Australians for grinding some- 



• See, for instance, W. Boyd Dawkins, in Proc. Somersetshire Archaeological 

 See, 1861-2, p. 197. 



^ Lartet & Christy, 'Cavernes du Perigord ;' Paris, 1861 (from ' Eeviie Archeo- 

 logiqne'). 



