living, enable us to throw our minds back into those remote times, and realise the life and surroundings of the Cave-man. We will first deal with his dwellings.
Fig. 73.—Section across the Valley of the Vezère, through the Rock-Shelter of Cro-Magnon.
The place for an encampment was generally chosen either under the shelter of a rock or at the mouth of a cavern, and in some cases, as, for example, in that of Cro-Magnon[1] in the valley of the Vezère (Fig. 73), the same spot was inhabited from time to time for a long series of years, until it was no longer habitable from the accumulations on the floor. In Fig. 74, the letters B, D, F, H, and J, represent successive deposits of charcoal, flint implements, and broken bones, which have resulted from successive occupations, continued until the débris reached to within about a foot of the roof. This section is further interesting because it shows the true relation of the human bones, b d, to the Palæolithic refuse-heaps. It will be seen that they rest at the further end of the cave in débris overlying the refuse-heaps, and that therefore they are later than the Palæo-
- ↑ Lartet and Christy, Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ, 4to, p. 66.
