Aurignac
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The drift which fills the valleys of the Pyrenees has not, it is evident, touched this elevated spot in Aurignac.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
The cave or grotto of Aurignac, in which the seventeen human skeletons were found, was carefully examined by Lartet eight years after its discovery.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
In Scotland have been found necklaces of nerites and limpets; at Aurignac, eighteen little plaques of cockle shell pierced with holes in the centre.
From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by N. D'Anvers
It may—indeed it has been said, that they imply that some of the extinct mammalia survived nearly to our times: First—Because of the modern style of the works of art at Aurignac.
From The Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell
It is interesting that similar stencillings of the hands were made by cave men on the walls of some of the European caves, as, for instance, those of Aurignac in southern France.
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
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