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Rh an immense assortment of handicraft work illustrating his industries, occupations and amusements. With the exception of a few sporadic finds, referred to in last chapter, but which had little effect on current opinion, it was from the discoveries in the caves of this romantic valley that anthropologists first realized the significance of the old-world civilization which has bequeathed to mankind so many specimens of their skill in engraving, sculpture and painting.

Edward Lartet, an ardent palæontologist, who, in 1861, gave publicity to the fact that, in the cave of Aurignac, human bones and manufactured objects were associated with