Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . na, comprising stone industry as well as utilized bones. ^ Recberclies sur revolution du Mousterien dans le gisement de La Quina(Charente). l fasc.: Ossements utilises. In 4°, Schleicher Freres, 1907. 542 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. the horse; (3) first phalanges of the bison and other ruminants;(4) metacarpals and metatarsals of the horse and reindeer; (5)fragments of the shafts of long bones. In some cases the bone re-sembles a veritable miniature chopping block. In every instance itwould ojffer a solid s
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . na, comprising stone industry as well as utilized bones. ^ Recberclies sur revolution du Mousterien dans le gisement de La Quina(Charente). l fasc.: Ossements utilises. In 4°, Schleicher Freres, 1907. 542 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. the horse; (3) first phalanges of the bison and other ruminants;(4) metacarpals and metatarsals of the horse and reindeer; (5)fragments of the shafts of long bones. In some cases the bone re-sembles a veritable miniature chopping block. In every instance itwould ojffer a solid support for an object to be cut, scraped, orchipped, as the case might be. Similar incisions could have been produced by pressing a flintchip or flake against a fresh bone at the proper angle to produce themarginal chipping so characteristic of the stone industry at the sta-tion in question, as has been noted by M. A. de Mortillet. Since Mar-tins discovery at La Quina, bones utilized in similar fashion havebeen found by Favraud at Petit-Puymoyen, and Pont-Neuf (Cha-. 12 3 4 5 6 Fig. 4.—Flint implements, from the Aurignacian horizon in the cavern of Los Cottes(Vienne). I. After Breuil, Rev. de TEcole danthr. de Paris, Vol. 16, p. 56, de Rochebrune collection. rente), also by Dr. Eugene Pittard at the Mousterian station ofRebieres (Dordogne). Petit-Puymoyen is of Mousterian age, whilePont-Neuf is Aurignacian. The rehabilitation of the Aurignacian epoch and the determina-tion of its stratigraphic position between the Mousterian and Solu-trean instead of between the Solutrean and Magdalenian, where ithad been placed for a brief period by G. de Mortillet,* is one of thespecial recent contributions to the credit of cavern explorers, Car-tailhac and Breuil suggesting that the old name be revived. Onceand for a long period rejected by the builders it has suddenly becomeone of the chief corner stones in the temple of classification. Its Compte-rendu, Acad, des Sci., Paris, vol
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