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Cave Hunting / Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe

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By William Boyd Dawkins
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The author surveys the formation and variety of caves and relates their geological processes to the archaeological and paleontological deposits they preserve, explaining types such as sea-formed, volcanic, and limestone water-caves and the development of stalagmitic deposits. He reviews the history of cave exploration across Europe and provides detailed case studies (for example Wookey Hole, Victoria Cave, Kent’s Hole, Brixham, Auvergne, and Denbighshire), describing discoveries of human tools, artworks, and bones alongside extinct Pleistocene fauna. The account interprets these associations to trace palæolithic and neolithic occupations, later historic cave use, and the climatic and geographical implications for early inhabitants and regional ethnological links.

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Title: Cave Hunting

Author: William Boyd Dawkins

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CAVE HUNTING.

Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Fig. 3.

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C. F. Kell Lath. London F.C.

ENAMELS FROM THE VICTORIA CAVE. p98.

London; Macmillan & Co. 1874.

CAVE HUNTING,

RESEARCHES ON
THE EVIDENCE OF CAVES
RESPECTING THE
EARLY INHABITANTS OF EUROPE

BY
W. BOYD DAWKINS, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., F.S.A.,
Curator of the Museum and Lecturer in Geology in The Owens College, Manchester.

ILLUSTRATED BY COLOURED PLATE AND WOODCUTS.

London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1874.

[The Right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved.]

LONDON:
R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,
BREAD STREET HILL.

TO
THE BARONESS BURDETT COUTTS,

THE FOUNDER OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS
FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,
This Work is Dedicated,
AS A SLIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENT FROM HER FIRST SCHOLAR.