Identifier: annualreportofbo1909smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Archives Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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well dated, because there the upper Aurignacian floor deposits cover the mural figures.
The rock shelter of La Greze is only 6 kilometers above Les Eyzies,on the right bank of the main fork of the Beune. Fortunately some of its wall engravings have been protected by the floor deposits. As the latter contain an industry of Solutrean age, both the authenticity
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and the age of the engravings are established in the same manner as at Pair-non-Pair. An engraving from La Greze representing the first phase in the development of parietal decoration is reproduced in figure 9.
Before leaving the caverns of the Vezere Valley it should be noted that recent discoveries there have not been confined to mural art alone. The classic station of Les Eyzies is only one of many rock-shelters in the same cliff. To the east of it only a few rods and at the same level is the station of Peyrille, yielding an industry with lower Magdalenian facies. A short distance to the west of the Grotte
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Fig. 9. - Engraving of a bison. Cavern of La Grèze (Dordogne). First phase. 1/5. After Breuil.
des Eyzies and at a slightly higher (2.50 meters) level is the rock-shelter of Escalifer, with lower Mousterian industry. A few meters still farther to the west and on the same level as Escalifer is the rock-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 the rock-shelter of Laussel near a chateau of the same name and also near the rock-shelter of La Greze. Explored originally by E. Riviere in 1894, new excavations were made by Doctor Lalanne in 1908. The Laussel section revealed in stratigraphic position a succession of lay-ers, including Acheulian, Mousterian, Aurignacian in two separate horizons, and Solutrean.
558 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909.
The station of La Micoque, some 2 kilometers to the northwest of Les Eyzies, although discovered in 1895, should be mentioned in this connection because of recent excavations by Hauser and others.

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