1903 - 4 .] Dr Munro on Man in the Palaeolithic Period. Ill 
tion of Plate III. Indeed it would appear as if bone and horn 
had almost superseded flint in the manufacture of weapons of the 
chase. This partly accounts for the large number of small flint 
tools, such as knives, saws, scrapers, borers, etc., found on 
Figs. 20 and 21. — Bovidie incised on stone, from the rock-shelter of 
Bruniquel (§). (After British Museum Catalogue.) 
Magdalenien sites (Plate II.). It was, no doubt, by means of these 
finer flint instruments that the artists were able to bore the eye 
of a fine needle, to carve hunting scenes, and to sculpture their 
dagger-handles and batons de commandement into the conventional 
forms of familiar animals. 
The artistic skill displayed by these primitive hunters has been 
