THE PLEISTOCENE OR GLACIAL PERIOD. 



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interpreted as the incidental products of preliminary processes in the 

 production of a higher class of stone art, — an interpretation which 

 does not seem to have been fully adjudicated, as yet, in Europe, — 



Fig. 575. — Etching of reindeer on a slab of slate, from the bone cave of Les Eyzies, 

 Dordogne, France (£ size). The next figure is from the opposite side of the same 

 slab. (From a photograph, Prestwich's Geology.) 



Fig. 576.— Sketch of an aurochs on the opposite side of the slab of slate showing 

 the reindeer above. These sketches may be instructively compared with the 

 similar work of the ancient Assyrians and Egyptians. 



a more favorable judgment of the art of these ancient peoples would 

 appear to be required by the other classes of relics found. There 

 were associated with the stone artefacs, implements of bone, such as 

 needles with perforated heads, awls or bodkins, harpoons or spears 



