Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ANTIQUITY OF MAN IN EUEOPE—MACCURDY. 541 and the neolithic above. This is the sort of evidence on which thescience of prehistoric European archeology rests. CAVERNS AND ROCK-SHELTERS. Turning to the paleolithic caverns and rock-shelters, we find con-firmatory evidence, although there is no direct stratigraphic rela-tion between the superimposed cavern deposits and those of theriver valleys. The chasm, we believe, is safely bridged, however,by the combined evidence of faunal and industrial remains. Theresults accumulated in
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ANTIQUITY OF MAN IN EUEOPE—MACCURDY. 541 and the neolithic above. This is the sort of evidence on which thescience of prehistoric European archeology rests. CAVERNS AND ROCK-SHELTERS. Turning to the paleolithic caverns and rock-shelters, we find con-firmatory evidence, although there is no direct stratigraphic rela-tion between the superimposed cavern deposits and those of theriver valleys. The chasm, we believe, is safely bridged, however,by the combined evidence of faunal and industrial remains. Theresults accumulated in the past decade of cavern exploration havebeen even more remarkable than those due to the investigation ofvalley sites. Like the researches of Commont at Saint-Acheul, muchtime has been given by cavern explorers to regions and even stationsalready well known. As examples there may be cited the caverns ofGrimaldi, Le Moustier (Dordogne), and Altamira, Spain. Rock-shelters and caves seem to have been employed as habitationsbefore the close of the Acheulian epoch and
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