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mon bear, wild-boar, badger, wolf, beaver, rat, and some birds and fishes. Grains of wheat and a variety of fruit-stones and seeds were also identified. The larger bones of two human skeletons, which appeared to have
Fig. 19.—Mas-d'Azil. Harpoons of stag-horn (1, 2, 3);objects of bone (7, 8, 9, 10); round-nosed pebble worked at one end (4); flint object (6); horn worked at one end(5); tooth of a bear (11). (All 1/2). (After Piette.) been buried after the flesh had been removed, had also been marked with red patches of peroxide of iron. Super-imposed on this bed, but passing into it almost insensibly, were deposits of wood ashes 231/2 inches thick, streaked with bands of grey, white and red.