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But the most important discovery of all, which leaves no doubt on the subject, is that made by M. Perrault at the Chassey Camp, near Chalon-sur-Saone, beneath a hearth dating from Neolithic times. It is of brown earthenware with a rather rough surface mixed with bits of flint, and is so much worn that it had evidently been in use a long time.

The use of spoons, which certainly marked considerable progress, must therefore have spread rapidly. Dipper found in the excavations at the Chassey Camp. Long previously, however, pottery of a great variety of form bore witness to tire plastic skill of man.

The men of Marjevols drank out of human crania; the Grenoble Museum owns a drinking-vessel of this kind; others have been discovered at Billancourt, at Chavannes, at the Chassey Camp, and at Sutz, AEfele, and Loci-as in Switzerland, as well as at Brookville in the State of Indiana. Dr. Dr.

Numerous objects picked up in the Chassey Camp belong to Neolithic times, but the people who have occupied it since those remote days, the men of the Bronze and Iron ages, the Gauls, the Romans, and the Merovingians, have so turned over the ground that products of industries, completely strange to each other, are everywhere mixed together in inextricable confusion.