Reindeer age, but beneath deposits with relics equally characteristic of the Neolithic period, he describes two beds, the combined depth of which amounted to about 4 feet, which yielded the relics supposed to indicate a transition period.
The lower of these two beds was composed chiefly of ashes and wood-charcoal, intermingled with some fallen rocks. The thickness of this bed was 25½-inches, and among its contents the following worked objects were found :—flint knives and scrapers, a number of perforated deer-teeth arranged as if they
FIGS. 88-93. Bone Implements from the Cave of Mas-d'Azil, France (⅔). (Col. Piette.)
had formed a necklet, also perforated teeth of various other animals (Fig. 94) ; pins, polished pointers, and spatulas of bone (Figs. 88-93) ; barbed harpoons made of stag-horn, some being perforated at the butt-end with an oval or round hole, and others having the barbs on one side only (Figs. 98-101); also a large number of pebbles of quartz or schist such as could be picked from the bed of the river some round-nosed and pestle-shaped, showing usage markings at one end (Fig. 96), and others flat and oblong having various devices painted on them with peroxide of iron (Fig. 102). The fauna was represented
