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first a reindeer and lastly a bison with the head toward the right. The 

 mammoth is again the latest of the figures in gronp three. It was in- 

 cised over the figure of a great bison. Older than the bison is the 

 reindeer ; and oldest of all, the small figure of a horse, with the exception 

 of the rump almost obliterated by subsequent drawings. The order for 

 the fourth group beginning with the latest figure is : mammoth, bison, 

 and horse. Below this ensemble is a finely engraved mammoth. That 

 such superposition was in a large measure unconscious, unintentional, 





Fig. 9. Engraved Figure of the Hoese with Arrows Sticking in his Side. 

 Cavern wall of Tuc d'Audoubert (Ariege). Votive offering for success in the 

 chase. 



there can be little question. This superposition sometimes marks a 

 lapse of considerable time and may be of service in the dating of mural 

 art in general. 



Quite recently engraved slabs of stone have been found at La Made- 

 leine, some of them from refuse worked over years ago by Lartet 

 and Christy. These and similar specimens from Limeuil (Dordogne) 

 are now the property of the Museum of National Antiquities at St. 

 Germain. Monsieur L. Didon has found engraved slabs of Aurignacian 

 age in the rock shelters at Sergeac (Dordogne), one of which repre- 

 senting a horse and found in 1912, now belongs to the American Museum 

 of Natural Histor} r . Still more remarkable are the bas reliefs of upper 

 Aurignacian age from the rock shelter of Laussel (Dordogne) repre- 

 senting the human form. Four of these depict a female type already 

 familiar through discoveries at Brassempouy (Landes), Mentone and 



