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CHAP. VII.]
PALÆOLITHIC SUBDIVISIONS IN FRANCE.
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plements, and scrapers are found, similar to those figured from the upper strata in the Cresswell Caves.

Figs. 70, 71.—Harpoon-heads of Antler, La Madelaine, 1/1. Fig. 72.—Harpoon-head, Gorge d'Enfer, 1/1.


4. That of the rock-shelter of La Madelaine in the Dordogne, or the "Epoque Magdalenien," characterised by the numerous saws, scrapers, and borers of flint, and by a great quantity of implements of various sorts fashioned out of bone and antler, such as bone needles (Fig. 69), harpoons (Figs. 70, 71, 72), and sketches upon antler, bone, stone, and ivory, such as those figured in the following pages. This stage is characterised by the de-