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length, have recently been discovered in one of the French 

 caverns, and are the only examples of modelling in clay 

 by the Palaeolithic men yet discovered. 



Our figures of the mammoth are (excepting Fig. 7) all 

 of the fourth class — namely, rock-paintings in one colour 



(black or red) partly 

 engraved and scraped. 

 The originals are from 

 I J ft. to 2 1 ft. long. 

 The mammoths given 

 in Fig. 8 are care- 

 fully copied from en- 

 gravings discovered, 

 reproduced, and de- 

 scribed by M. Breuil 

 and his fellow- 

 workers. They are 

 on the walls of the 

 cavern known as the 

 " Font de Gaume," in 

 the commune of Tayac 

 in the Dordogne. 

 Those copied in Fig. 

 9 and Fig. 10, A, 

 were discovered on 

 the walls of the cave 

 of Les Combarelles 

 in the same district. 

 Fig. 10, B, is from a cave at Bernifal, near les Eyzies, in 

 the Dordogne, and shows a mammoth enclosed in a 

 triangular design, which is believed to represent a trap, 

 or else a cage. Such triangular figures with upright and 

 also bent supports are found in various degrees of elabora- 

 tion on both small and large engravings of this period, and 

 are generally accepted as representing huts or enclosures 



Fig. 9. — Similar engravings from the neigh- 

 bouring cave of Combarelles. The lower 

 figure is an enlargement of the smaller of 

 the two above it. 



