362 PREHISTORIC EUROPE. 



top of the upper stalagmitic pavements, of many large blocks 

 detached from the rock above, or of tumultuous heaps of earth 

 and angular ddhris, such as that accumulation of yellow clay 

 with stones which forms so prominent a feature in the caves 

 and rock-shelters of Belgium — separating the Palaeolithic from 

 the later Neolithic layers (a position which is also maintained 

 by the loss in some of the same caves). Let us remember, like- 

 wise, how at Gibraltar and in Malta similar appearances present 

 themselves, and the combined evidence becomes so overwhelm- 

 ing that we are driven to conclude that the Palaeolithic Age 

 came to a close with the last glacial epoch. 



