Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ed, becausethere the upper Aurignacian floor deposits cover the mural figures. The rock shelter of La Greze is only G kilometers above Les Eyzies,on the right bank of the main fork of the Beune. Fortunately someof its wall engravings have been protected by the floor deposits. Asthe latter contain an industry of Solutrean age, both the authenticity ANTIQUITY OF MAN IN EUEOPE MACCURDY, 55l and the age of the engravings are established in the same manner asat Pair-non-Pair. An engraving from La Greze representing thefirst phas
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ed, becausethere the upper Aurignacian floor deposits cover the mural figures. The rock shelter of La Greze is only G kilometers above Les Eyzies,on the right bank of the main fork of the Beune. Fortunately someof its wall engravings have been protected by the floor deposits. Asthe latter contain an industry of Solutrean age, both the authenticity ANTIQUITY OF MAN IN EUEOPE MACCURDY, 55l and the age of the engravings are established in the same manner asat Pair-non-Pair. An engraving from La Greze representing thefirst phase in the development of parietal decoration is reproducedin figure 9. Before leaving the caverns of the Vezere Valley it should benoted that recent discoveries there have not been confined to muralart alone. The classic station of Les Eyzies is only one of manyrock-shelters in the same cliff. To the east of it only a few rods andat the same level is the station of Peyrille, yielding an industry withlower Magdalenian facies. A short distance to the west of the Grotte. Pig. -Engraving of a bison. Cavern of La Gr6ze (Dordogne). First phase. Breuil. After des Eyzies and at a slightly higher ( meters) level is the rock-shelter of Escalifer, with lower Mousterian industry. A few metersstill farther to the west and on the same level as Escalifer is therock-shelter of Audi, with a superposition of Aurignacian on Mouste-rian. Some 5 or 6 miles to the east of this group of stations is therock-shelter of Laussel near a chateau of the same name and also nearthe rock-shelter of 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 discover
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