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

Chapter 4: LISTS OF SPECIES AND TABLES OF MEASUREMENTS.
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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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List of Animals extinct during the Historic Age 78  
”  Animals introduced during the Historic Age 79  
”  Coins found in the Victoria Cave 93  
”  Principal Animals and Objects found in Brit-Welsh Strata in Caves 131  
”  Animals found in the Refuse-heap, Perthi-Chwareu 150  
”  Contents in Neolithic Caves and Cairn, North Wales 166  
Dimensions of Perthi-Chwareu Skulls 171  
Dimensions of Perthi Chwareu Tibiæ 173  
Proportions of ordinary Tibiæ 174  
Comparative Measurements of Skulls 179  
Table of Long Skulls from Britain and Ireland 197  
”  Measurements of British Brachy-cephali, and Gaulish and Belgic Brachy-cephali and Dolicho-cephali 199  
Measurements of various Skulls 213  
Measurements of Skulls of doubtful antiquity 236  
List of Late Pleistocene Animals unknown in Britain in the Prehistoric Age 266  
”  Remains found in Wookey Hyæna Den 310  
Late Pleistocene Fauna north of Alps and Pyrenees 360, 361  
List of Animals from the Caves of Gibraltar 372  
Fauna from the Caves of Mentone 373  
”  Bone-caves of Sicily 376
List of Animals from the Middle Pleistocene 415
” ”  ” Early Pleistocene 418
”  Pleistocene Mammalia 420, 422
”  Characteristic Animals of the Pleistocene Period 423
”  ”  ”  ”  Pleiocene Period 424