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Rh presence is reported from many localities both in loess deposits and in caverns.

Aurignacian industry is characterized by blade-like flint flakes with one end chipped obliquely and the back worked down (rabattu) for its entire length; flakes chipped along both margins and producing in some instances hour-glass forms; the appearance of two types of bone implements, (1) scrapers terminating in an oblique edge and (2) points with cleft base; the beginnings of sculpture, engraving, and painting, and, according to Rutot at least, the dawn of ceramic art. In respect to fauna, this is the epoch in which the reindeer first becomes prominent. The cave bear, horse (abundant), hyena, and mammoth are also well represented. The direct superposition of the Aurignacian on the Mousterian is seen to good advantage in the caverns of Grimaldi, at Pair-non-Pair (Gironde), Spy (Belgium), Chatelperron (Allier), La Quina (Charente), and Les Cottés (Vienne). On the other hand, the superposition of the Solutrean on the Aurignacian has been noted at a number of stations including: Cro-Magnon, Combe-Capelle, Le Ruth and Laussel (Dordogne), Solutré (Saône-et-Loire), Lacoste II near Brive (Corrèze), grotte du roc, commune of Sers (Charente), Sirgenstein (Württemberg), Ofnet (Bavaria), and Carmago and Hornos de la Peña, both in the Province of Santander, Spain.

By reason of its bearing on the relation between cavern culture and the glacial period, one of the most important paleolithic discoveries