Cave Hunting: Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of EuropeDawkins, William Boyd
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Cave Hunting: Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe
Dawkins, William Boyd
Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Europe; Caves -- Europe; Europe -- Antiquities; Prehistoric peoples -- Europe
Page 213, note 2.--The “tête annulaire,” or annular depression, is
also visible on some of the broad as well as the long skulls from
a “Merovingian” cemetery at Chelles in the same collection. The
association in this cemetery of the two skull-forms is probably due to
the Merovingians being the masters, and the Celts the servants, and the
conquerors and the vanquished being buried in the same spot.
Page 220, line 24, _for_ “Volscæ” _read_ “Volcæ.”
Page 223, line 25, _for_ “east” _read_ “west.”
Page 228, line 3, _dele_ “that.”
Page 229, line 3, _for_ “set foot” _read_ “settled.” The statement in
the text is too strong. The conquest of Gaul by the Huns under Attila
was averted by his defeat in the famous battle of Chalons.
Page 275, line 21, _for_ “are” _read_ “is.”
Page 279.--Since this was written a new ossiferous deposit has been
found in a fissure at Lothorsdale, near Skipton, from which the remains
of the _Elephas antiquus_ and _Hippopotamus amphibius_ have been
obtained.
Page 284.--The ossiferous fissure at Windy Knoll, near Castleton,
recently explored by Messrs. Tym, Pennington, Plant, Walker and
others, has added several animals to the pleistocene fauna of that
district--the bison, roe, reindeer, bear, wolf, fox, and hyæna, the
first of these species being remarkably abundant, and of all ages. The
remains were probably introduced by a stream from a higher level.
Page 337, note 2, line 2, _for_ “the Revue” and “les Matériaux” _read_
“in the Revue” and “in the Matériaux.”
Page 337, note 5, _for_ “Aquitainicæ” _read_ “Aquitanicæ.”
Page 347, line 6, _for_ “mind” _read_ “minds.”
Page 356, line 15, _for_ “Port” _read_ “Fort.”
Page 361.--Mr. Ayshford Sanford adds the _Felis Caffer_ to the list
from Bleadon, and the _Gulo borealis_ to that of the animals from
Kent’s Hole.
Page 386, line 10, _dele_ inverted commas.
Page 386, line 17, _for_ “or from 1,000 to 2,000 feet lower than the
glacial covering” _read_ “thus differing by a line of from 1,000 to
2,000 feet from the glacial covering” (Palgrave).
CAVE-HUNTING.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
Legends and Superstitions connected with Caves.--The Physical
Division of the Subject.--The Biological.--The Inhabitants
of Caves.--Men and Animals.--Ethnological, Archæological,
and Geographical Bearings.--The three Classes of Bone-Caves:
Historic, Prehistoric, Pleistocene.--History of Cave Exploration
in Europe: Germany, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Southern Europe.
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