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] occupation of the cavern, to which they are considered to belong by M. Louis Lartet and the editors of Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ. 74.—Detailed Section of Cro-Magnon.

These caverns and rock-shelters are to be looked upon as places of periodic resort, like the winter huts of the Eskimos, between Eschscholtz Bay and the river Mackenzie. That this was the case, at all events in Great Britain, is proved by the intimate association of the gnawed bones of animals brought in by the hyænas, with the traces of human occupation which has been pointed out in the Cresswell caves. When a cave was deserted by man, it was immediately taken possession of by the wild beasts whom he had temporarily dislodged.

The Cave-men did not always use caves and rock-shelters for their camps. The large accumulations of