. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 524 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. EUROrE. rALEOLITHIC AGE. Lartet and Christy found prehistoric whistles in the cavern of Lau- gerie Basse, in the Dordogne District, France. They also found whis- tles of the same kind in the cavern of Aurignac. It was supposed that both these caverns belonged to the Paleolithic period, and, therefore, they afforded corroborating evidence of the use of these instruments in that period. Later investigation
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 524 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. EUROrE. rALEOLITHIC AGE. Lartet and Christy found prehistoric whistles in the cavern of Lau- gerie Basse, in the Dordogne District, France. They also found whis- tles of the same kind in the cavern of Aurignac. It was supposed that both these caverns belonged to the Paleolithic period, and, therefore, they afforded corroborating evidence of the use of these instruments in that period. Later investigations rendered this certain with regard to Laugerie Basse, but made it uncertain with regard to xVurignac. When the first whistle was found, in 18G0, in Aurignac it was reserved by these gentlemen for this confirmation, but afterwards, when, as they say, there had been many discoveries of this kind of instrument, notably those from the Laugerie Basse, so that specimens are not now rare in museums and collections, they felt themselves justified in assuming the existence and use of this instrument in Paleolithic times. Fig. IGG represents the whistle from Laugerie Basse, taken from Lartet and Christy's "Eeliquia^. Aqui- tanica^," and is plate V, fig. 21. It is described as the first digital phalange of the hind foot of a rein- deer. A hole has been bored in its lower surface near the expanded upper articulation. On applica- tion of the lips to the hollow of this articulation, and blowing obliquely into the hole, they'got a sharp Sfmnd analogous to that produced by a cat call or a key used as a whistle. Marquis de Kadaillac^ figures a whistle of deer horn or reindeer phalange from the collection Mas- senat (Brives, France) similar to that shown in tig. IGG, and states that others have been found in the caverns of Les Eyzies, Schussenried, and Chafiaud. He continues that they have been found in the Belgian caverns, in the peat beds of Scania, southern Sweden, in the island of
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