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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12736686174).jpg 592 <br> W BOYD DAWKINS ON THE MAMMAL-FAUNA <br> Fig 1 Incised Jig ure of Horse i <br> The most important discovery of the handiwork of man is the head <br> and fore quarters of a horse fig 1 incised on a smoothed and <br> rounded fragment of rib cut short off at one end and broken at the <br> other On the flat side the head is represented with the nostrils and <br> mouth and neck carefully drawn A series of fine oblique lines show <br> that the animal was hog-maned They stop at the bend of the back <br> which is very correctly drawn Indeed the whole is very well done <br> and is evidently a sketch from the life As is usually the case the <br> feet are not represented <br> On comparing this engraving with those of horses from the caves <br> of Perigord and from the recently described cave of the Kesslerloch t <br> near Thayingen in Switzerland the identity of style renders the <br> conclusion tolerably certain that the palaeolithic hunters who occu- <br> pied the Creswell cave during the accumulation of the upper part of <br> the cave-earth were the same as those who hunted the Reindeer and <br> Horse in Switzerland and the south of France <br> A bone awl was also found composed of the metacarpal of a Rein- <br> deer and carefully rounded and smoothed ; it had been broken into <br> three pieces before it was thrown away By a fortunate chance I <br> found two out of the three fragments <br> The pointed antlers may have been used by man ; but they may <br> also be the result of the action of carbonic acid in wearing away <br> the bruised surfaces as we shall presently see <br> Of the flint implements it is only necessary to say that they are <br> all of the types which I have described with two exceptions the one <br> being an oval trimmed flake and the other a double scraper of the <br> The quartzite implements are of the forms already described and <br> same form as those of the caves of Southern France and of the <br> Kesslerloch <br> of those made of clay iron-stone only one demands special notice <br> It is a small oval implement of the St -Acheul and Moustier type <br> blunt at the base and tapering to a rounded point fig 2 <br> The numerous split quartzite pebbles are of the same sort as those <br> recently described by Captain Jones U S A as being in use among <br> the American Indians of Wyoming He writes Certain articles of <br> a very rude character are still in use to some extent among our <br> western Indians and even in the case of such tribes as have now <br> Reliquiae Aquitanicae <br> t See ' Excavations at the Kesslerloch Cave near Thayingen ' By Conrad <br> Merk Translated by J E Lee Longmans 1876 35818761 110705 51125 Page 592 Text 33 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35818761 1877 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 33 1877 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35818761 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35818761 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-24 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12736686174 2015-08-26 19 58 54 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1877 Photos uploaded from Flickr by FĂŚ using a script | ||||
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