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WE have at various times directed the attention of our readers to this interesting subject, but new discoveries are continually being made. M. Ed. Piette, whose name is so well known in connection with his investigation of the famous cave of Mas-d'Azil, has given in L'Anthropologie (xv., 1904, p. 129) a classification of the deposits formed in caves during the age of the reindeer; starting as a geologist, he was firmly impressed with the fact that stratigraphy is at the root of fruitful advance in prehistory, and this end he has kept steadily in view. He gives the following table of relative chronology of the epochs which form part of the age of the reindeer:—
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H., A. The Evolution of Engraving in the Stone Age . Nature 72, 81–82 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072081a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/072081a0