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Updated: June 25, 2025
To return to Portugal, M. Cartailhac recognises that the plain plaques of slate from sites in the Cevennes "are certainly analogous" with the plaques from the Casa da Moura, even when these are elaborately ornamented with vandyked and other patterns. Another example is in Antiguedades Prehistoricas de Andalucia, p. 109. However, Dr.
"A knife is always a knife, an awl is always an awl," remarks M. Cartailhac; "they were made at every period, and their resemblance to each other proves nothing with any certainty." Rounded stones of granite or sandstone seem however to have been weapons peculiar to the Neolithic period. Dr.
M. Cartailhac, however, hazards yet another explanation, and suggests that the megalithic monuments were intended for the interment of whole families, and that the bodies were not introduced into the tombs until all the flesh was gone, when the skeletons might have been slipped through the openings left for that purpose.
Near the bodies lay several flint weapons, and some fragments of pottery. Cartailhac tells us of similar discoveries in various parts of Portugal. The caves of Santander have yielded worked bones and barbed harpoons; and those of Castile, various objects resembling those of the Reindeer period of France.
Everything bears witness to the struggles of which these mounds were the scene. Similar relies of a past still obscure are met with in the south of Europe. Cartailhac has brought into notice the CITANIAS, which are strange fortified towns in Portugal.
M. Cartailhac declares that he has never been able to establish either in the south of France or in the central table-land a single fact which justifies us in asserting that the men of the Reindeer period, still less those of earlier epochs, knew how to make pottery.
Some few years ago MM. Cartailhac and Boule discovered one of these primitive quarries at Mur de Barrez, the chief town of the department of Aveyron. They made out eight shafts in the face of a layer of limestone some eighty-one feet long, and at every turn of their excavations they came to fresh shafts.
I am obliged to pass over many other most interesting examples, but I must not omit to mention the magnificent examples which form part of the Peccadeau collection at Lisle. Cartailhac mentions some chamois, an ox, and an elephant; some engraved on the bones of deer and others on fragments of ivory, or on reindeer antlers. The art of the cave-men was now at its zenith.
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