[Illustration: FIG. 169. Typical Solutrean implements of war and chase. After de Mortillet. _Pointes en feuille de laurier_, or laurel-leaf points, artistically retouched on both surfaces, at both ends, and on both borders; regarded by de Mortillet rather as blades of poniards than as javelin heads. 120. Lozenge-shaped form from the type station of Solutré, Saône-et-Loire. 121. Elongate form found at Solutré. 122. The largest _pointe_ discovered at Solutré. 123. One of the smallest points found at Solutré. 124. Solutrean point from Laugerie Haute, Dordogne. 127. Point from Gargas, Vaucluse. 128. Point of exceptionally fine workmanship. 130. One of eleven very large Solutrean laurel-leaf points found in a _cache_ at Volgu; probably a votive offering, as the flints are too slender to be of any use and one at least shows traces of coloring. All the flints are shown one-quarter actual size, except 129, which is one-half actual size.] The question at once arises, did this industrial advance take place in France or was it an invention brought from the east? On this point Breuil observes(54) that in the highest Aurignacian levels in Belgium, in Dordogne, and at Solutré the Solutrean technique becomes faintly apparent either in the 'stem' points (_pointes à soie_) of Font Robert, La Ferrassie, and Spy or in the double-edged points tending toward the laurel-leaf type of the Solutrean, but that all the other implements remain purely Aurignacian. RELATIONS AND SUBDIVISIONS OF SOLUTREAN CULTURE _Lower (Early) Magdalenian._ Prototypes of bone harpoons. Beginnings of animal sculpture. Absence of any trace of the laurel-leaf spear heads of Solutrean times. _Upper (Late) Solutrean._ Typical shouldered points (_pointes à cran_)--elongate flakes worked on one or both sides and notched. Small laurel-leaf spear heads. Bone javelin points, awls, and needles, very finely worked. Placard. Lacave. _Middle (High) Solutrean._ Large 'laurel-leaf' spear heads worked on both sides. Climax of Solutrean flint industry. Placard. _Lower (Proto-) Solutrean._ Primitive 'laurel-leaf' and 'willow-leaf' spear heads, most of them worked on only one side. Grotte du Trilobite. _Transition from Aurignacian._ Pedunculate spear heads (_pointes à soie_) of primitive Font Robert type. Climax of human sculpture.