Of the fauna of the previous age the reindeer is the most characteristic which still survives, and hence the reason for giving to this stage of culture the name Reindeer Period.
3. Epoque actuelle.− The superficial blackish débris of the upper strata he assigned to Neolithic and modern times, when the reindeer also vanished from the locality.
M. Dupont, in his excellent memoir Les Temps Préhistoriques en Belgique, engraves some objects made of reindeer horn, which he assigns to the mammoth period (Fig. 25).
FIG. 25. Relics of the Mammoth and Reindeer Periods in Belgium (all ½.) (After Dupont.)
Trou de Sureau (1, 2) ; Pont-à-Lesse (3, 4, 5) ; Goyet (8, 13) ; Trou de Chaleux (6, 7, 9-12, 14-16).
There are a few harpoons and spear-points (Nos. 2, 8, 9, and 10), a bâton de commandement (No. 13), a needle (No. 16), some articles showing efforts at rudimentary carving (No. 5), also a doll-like object suggesting an attempt at modelling the human body (Pl. XXVIII., No. 5). The flint relics from the reindeer period are said to manifest greater skill in their manufacture (Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6, 11, 15), especially in the process of secondary chipping. Fragments of coarse pottery have also been noted ; but only in one instance were the pieces sufficient to determine the contour of the vessel (Fig. 27). But it is to Neolithic man,
