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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909.

The station of La Micoque, some 2 kilometers to the northwest of Les Eyzies, although discovered in 1895, should be mentioned in this connection because of recent excavations by Hauser and others. Cartailhac and Hauser believe it to have been protected originally by an overhanging rock. According to Rutot it was always, as it now appears to be, a station in the open. The industry is Mousterian, with traces of a ruder paleolithic facies at the bottom and Aurignacian at the top.

One of the latest additions to the long list is the rock-shelter of Le Hut, about half a mile below the celebrated station of Le Moustier and on the same side of the Vézère River, excavated in 1907 by D. Peyrony. The section at Le Rut overlaps and supplements that of Laussel. It begins with the middle and upper Aurignacian, above which are added three Solutréan horizons and one Magdalenian.

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Fig. 10.—Engraving of Ursus spelaeus, from the cavern of La Mairie, Teyjat. After Capitan and Breuil, C. r., Congr. intern. d'anthr. et d'arch. préhs., vol. 1, p. 391, Monaco, 1906.

Other regions of the Dordogne have not been neglected. The cavern of La Mairie and the rock-shelter of Mège, both at Teyjat, are near Javerlhac, a railway station on the line between Nontron and Angoulême. Some twenty years ago M. Perrier du Carne found in La Mairie cavern Magdalenian implements and five remarkable engravings on stone representing the horse and the bison. In 1903 three groups of engravings (fig. 10) were discovered on the walls of the cavern, and during the same year the rock-shelter of Mège in