Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . f La Greze. Explored originally by E. Riviere in1894, new excavations were made by Doctor Lalanne in 1908. TheLaussel section revealed in stratigraphic position a succession of lay-ers, including Acheulian, Mousterian, Aurignacian in two separatehorizons, and Solutrean. 558 ANNUAL REPORT SMITPISONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. The station of La Micoque, some 2 kilometers to the northwest ofLes Eyzies, although discovered in 1895, should be mentioned in thisconnection because of recent excavations by Hauser and and
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . f La Greze. Explored originally by E. Riviere in1894, new excavations were made by Doctor Lalanne in 1908. TheLaussel section revealed in stratigraphic position a succession of lay-ers, including Acheulian, Mousterian, Aurignacian in two separatehorizons, and Solutrean. 558 ANNUAL REPORT SMITPISONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. The station of La Micoque, some 2 kilometers to the northwest ofLes Eyzies, although discovered in 1895, should be mentioned in thisconnection because of recent excavations by Hauser and and Hauser believe it to have been protected originally byan overhanging rock. According to Rutot it was always, as it nowappears to be, a station in the open. The industry is Mousterian,with traces of a ruder paleolithic facies at the bottom and Aurig-nacian at the top. One of the latest additions to the long list is the rock-shelter of LeHut, about half a mile below the celebrated station of Le Moustierand on the same side of the Vezere River, excavated in 1907 by Fig. 10.—Engraving of Ursus spelaeus, from the cavern of La Malrie, Teyjat. AfterCapitan and Breuil, C. r., Congr. intern, danthr. et darch. prehs., vol. 1, p. 391,Monaco, 1906. Peyrony. The section at Le Rut overlaps and supplements that ofLaussel. It begins with the middle and upper Aurignacian, abovewhich are added three Solutrean horizons and one Magdalenian. Other regions of the Dordogne have not been neglected. Thecavern of La Mairie and the rock-shelter of Mege, both at Teyjat,are near Javerlhac, a railway station on the line between Nontron andAngouleme. Some twenty years ago M. Perrier du Carne found inLa Mrarie cavern Magdalenian implements and five remarkable en-gravings on stone representing the horse and the bison. In 1903three groups of engravings (fig. 10) were discovered on the wallsof the cavern, and during the same year the rock-shelter of Mege in ANTIQUITY OF MAN IN EUROPE—MACCURDY. 559 the i
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