Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 17.—Inscription, from tlie upperMagdalenian, La Madeleine (Dor-dogne). After Piette, Lanthr.,vol. 15, p. 164, Fig. 18.—Asylian culture, from the cavern of Mas dAzil (Ari&ge). Above, perforatedharpoons of stag horn; below, pebbles with painted designs representing a cursivesystem of writing. After Hoernes, Der diluv. Mensch in Europa, p. 79, 1903. to the Asylian for at least a dozen symbols that have come downfrom the close of the Quatenary through the Phenician, Archaic ^Provincial form for Maison dAsyle, whence
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 17.—Inscription, from tlie upperMagdalenian, La Madeleine (Dor-dogne). After Piette, Lanthr.,vol. 15, p. 164, Fig. 18.—Asylian culture, from the cavern of Mas dAzil (Ari&ge). Above, perforatedharpoons of stag horn; below, pebbles with painted designs representing a cursivesystem of writing. After Hoernes, Der diluv. Mensch in Europa, p. 79, 1903. to the Asylian for at least a dozen symbols that have come downfrom the close of the Quatenary through the Phenician, Archaic ^Provincial form for Maison dAsyle, whence Piettes name (Asylian) forthe epoch. ANTIQUITY OF MAN IN EUKOPE MACCUKDY. 569 and classic Greek, Latin and Lydian. Discoveries of the past fewyears have added appreciably to our knowledge of the of these at Of net (Bavaria) will be discussed in the followingchapter. HUMAN REMAINS. The decade has witnessed the discoveries of skeletal remains of manthat have added much to our knowledge of the races inhabitingEurope during the Quaternary. Because of the stratigraphic posi-tion in Avhich it was found and of its somatological characters, thehuman lower jaw discovered by D
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