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Arms of the Bronze age, 386; the Iron age, 426.

, A. E., on the mines of Tuscany, 405.

Arras, barrows at, 429, 430, 431; supposed by Thurnam to be those of Gallic tribes, 431.

Arrow-head, flint, Laugerie-Haute (fig.), 200; heads, leaf-shaped (figs.), 288; straightener, Eskimo (fig.), 238

Art of Cave-men: engraving, 220; sculpture, 223; of engraving common to Cave-men and Eskimos, 239; of Neolithic age, 305; designs in the Bronze age, 378; in the Iron age, 434, 435; survival of the Late Celtic into the Historic period in Britain, 443.

Articles of early Bronze age in Britain, of France, 346; of late Bronze age in Britain, 347.

Arvicola (voles), 87; amphibius (water vole), 98; glarcolus (red field vole), 98; agrestis (short-tailed field vole), 98; arvalis (continental field vole), 96, 98; ratticeps (Russian vole), 99; nivalis (snowy vole), 101.

Ash, 132.

Asia Minor, knowledge of bronze derived from, 412.

Assyria, the influence of, 450.

Assyrian tin, probable source of, 407.

Atlantic coast-line in Pleiocene period, 73.

Auk, 303.

, Goodwin, discovers a fresh- water mussel, 149.

Auvergne, mammalia of the upper Pleiocenes of, 80.

Avebury, a temple of the Bronze age, 372; restored by Ferguson (fig.), 372.

Awl, bone (fig), 185.

Axe, Neolithic, Rhos-Digre cave (fig.), 273, 274; drawings of, as evidence of Neolithic art, 306; in culture, 349; bronze in handles(figs.), 350; palstave (fig.), 350; flanged(fig.), 351; socketed celt (fig.), 351; hammer, East Kennet (fig ), 369; bronze, plated with gold (fig.), 390.

Axeidæ, 89.

Badgers, 257, 262.

, on the flora of the Hebrides, 49.

, on River-drift man in India, 166.

Ballybetagh bog, Irish elks' heads in, 258.

Banksia, 52.

Barbary ape introduced into Gibraltar (note), 90.

Barley of Neolithic age, 301.

, Gerald de, on submergence at St. Bride's Bay, 252.

Barrows, Neolithic, at Kennet, 284; Uley, 285; Tilshead Lodge, 287; of Bronze age, disc-shaped, 367; bell-shaped, 368; bowl-shaped, 368; bell-shaped, 370; round Avebury and Stonehenge, 376; in the Iron age, 429.

Barnstaple, flint-flakes in submerged forest of, 251.

Basket-work fossil, supposed, 145.

Basque race, 315; dialects, traces of the Neolithic culture in, 334.

Bat, great (Vespertilio noctula), 40, 98; great horse-shoe (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum), 98.

, articles of early Bronze age found in Derbyshire, 346.

Battle-axe, bronze, Denmark (fig.), 390.

Baume, cavern at, 144.

Beads, gold (figs.), 357.

Bear (Ursus arvernensis), 80; (Ursus etruscus), 83; of Auvergne, 85; (grisly), 97 ; canine of, Windy Knoll, Castleton (fig.), 97; brown (Ursus arctos), 98 ; grisly (U. ferux), 98; cave (Ursus spelæus), 104, 108, 109, 144, 166; brown, 257; grisly, 257, 262.

Beaver (Castor), 40; (Castor fiber), 98; Cuvier's, 104; (Trogontherium), 57, 127, 133, 257, 261; not known in Prehistoric Ireland, 261.

, Sir Henry de la, on submerged forests, 248.

, on remains found at Eschscholtz Bay, 240.

Belgium, Cave-men found in, proved by, 204.

Bell-shaped barrow. Bronze age, 368; at Winterslow (fig.), 370.

, mammoth discovered by, 106.

, Eugene, on remains of the River-drift man, 167.

, von, analysis of ancient bronzes, 401.

Bignonia (creeper), 30, 52.

Biological and Physical changes in Britain before the arrival of man—the Eocene period, 13-36; Meiocene period, 37-69; in North-Western Europe, before arrival of man—Pleiocene period, 70-93; Britain at the time of the arrival of man, 94.