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Of this kind are those caves in the south of France, in which M. Lartet has lately found bones of the reindeer, associated with works of art somewhat more advanced in style than those of St. Acheul or of Aurignac.
This latter animal is thought by many to have disappeared in the very opening of the Post-Pliocene Period; so that this cave would judging from the remains of that animal have been prior to the long period of inundations in which the drift-deposits of Abbeville and Amiens were made. The drift which fills the valleys of the Pyrenees has not, it is evident, touched this elevated spot in Aurignac.
An argument, however, having an opposite leaning may perhaps be founded on the phenomena of Aurignac. It may indeed it has been said, that they imply that some of the extinct mammalia survived nearly to our times: First Because of the modern style of the works of art at Aurignac.
M. Lartet, however, has recently published a circumstantial account of what seems clearly to have been a sepulchral vault of the Pleistocene period, near Aurignac, not far from the foot of the Pyrenees. Nat." 4mo. Ser. a. Part of the vault in which the remains of seventeen human skeletons were found. b.
If we accept M. Lartet's interpretation of the ossiferous deposits of Aurignac, both inside and outside the grotto, they add nothing to the palaeontological evidence in favour of Man's antiquity, for we have seen all the same mammalia associated elsewhere with flint implements, and some species, such as the Elephas antiquus, Rhinoceros hemitoechus, and Hippopotamus major, missing here, have been met with in other places.
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