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Correlation: Aurignacian Industry = Recession of Glaciation IV (Wurm) 

 continued into beginning of Postglacial Time = End of 

 Monastirian Stage of Deperet — Ter- 

 races of 18-20 Meters 



The Aurignacian industry corresponds with the end of the Monastirian 

 Stage of Deperet (Mayet, 1921.1, page 6). The researches of Mayet and 

 Pissot (1915.1) establish the inclusion of an Aurignacian industry in its 

 final stage near the summit of the 20-meter terrace in the valley of the 

 Ain in the rock shelter of La Colombiere. The Aurignacian begins with the 

 advent of a new race of men in Europe, the Cro-Magnon, to replace the 

 Neanderthal workers of the Mousterian industry. Subsequent to this 

 filling in of the 20-meter terrace in the valley of the Ain we find super- 

 ficial layers containing the more recent industries of Solutrean and Mag- 

 dalenian time. Mayet has demonstrated (Deperet, 1921.1, page 127) 

 that the final Aurignacian industry, with its cold associated fauna, is 

 intercalated in the shelter of La Colombiere (Ain) at the very summit of 

 the 20-meter terrace. The cultural and climatic divisions of the Aurig- 

 nacian are as follows : 



Late Aurignacian. — Late Aurigna- 

 cian and Solutrean flint workers seek- 

 ing many open stations. The two in- 

 dustries partly contemporaneous, the 

 Aurignacian pursued by the Cro- 

 Magnon artistic race, the Solutrean 

 at the same time by an invading race 

 from the east, possibly the Brtinn. 

 Departure from Mousterian fashion 

 of chipping the flakes ; Aurignacian 

 "retouch" weakened ; increase of fine 

 flint tools for art work ; primitive 

 shouldered spear-head {point e a cran) 

 at Willendorf, Austria, and in the 

 Grimaldi caves on the Riviera, asso- 

 ciated with prototypes of Solutrean 

 culture ; carving on reindeer horn. 



Middle Aurignacian. — Perfection of 

 the flake industry and culmination of 

 the Aurignacian "retouch" ; increase 

 in number and variety of graving-tool 

 flints in the Pyrenees and in the Dor- 

 dogne region ; also at La Trilobite, on 

 the headwaters of the Seine. 



Grotto life near headwaters of the 

 Danube, associated with the "lower 

 rodent layer," the Obi lemming, 

 woolly rhinoceros, woolly mammoth, 

 stag, and reindeer. Arid "newer 

 loess" fauna of Achenheim, near 

 Strasburg, of Volklinshofen ; also 

 down the Danube to Willendorf, Aus 

 tria, and Briinn, Moravia, center of 

 Solutrean industry. Appearance of 

 Asiatic steppe forms, of the kiang. 

 and of the Saiga antelope. 



Final northward retreat and dis- 

 appearance of the northern types of 

 lemming, the banded {My odes tor- 

 quatus) and the Obi {M. obensis), 

 and other small tundra forms. 



