These conclusions were arrived at after a somewhat detailed examination of all the evidence then available--the remarkable distribution of the palaeolithic and ossiferous alluvia having, as I have said, particularly impressed me.
If ossiferous alluvia did here and there appear within the recently glaciated areas it was always either in caves, or as infra- or interglacial deposits.
Pohlig[AX] and others, do not now hesitate to correlate with those beds the old ossiferous and implement-bearing alluvia which lie altogether outside of glaciated regions.
He distinguished five ossiferous levels and picked up some flints of the Mousterien type, and even some Chelleen hatchets, to which he gave the name of coups DE POING.
In this cave, in the secondossiferous deposit, were found four fragments of pottery.
The ossiferous caves of the peninsula of Gower in Glamorganshire have been diligently explored of late years by Dr.
Lartet, an experienced investigator of ossiferous caverns in the south of France, came to the conclusion that all the bones and soil found in the inside were artificially introduced.
We may easily suppose the waters of such streams to have properties noxious to marine animals, and in this manner the entire absence of marine remains in the ossiferous gypsum may be explained.
On penetrating the sparry crust, he found the usual ossiferous bed; but pressing engagements compelled him to leave the deposit unexplored.
Most of the English ossiferous caverns belong to the former class, while the majority of those of the Dordogne and some other parts of the south of France belong to the latter.
The ossiferous cave of Brixham, near Torquay, was discovered in the year 1858, and was almost immediately brought under the notice of the Geological and Royal Societies by the late Dr.
The ossiferous deposits, in which also traces of man were found, lay both in fissures and in caves in the Lower Magnesian Limestone.
Leaving out of the question the blocks and fragments of stone falling in from the ceiling of the caverns, the methods by which the ossiferous deposits in them may have been formed, are various.
The ossiferous cave at Brixham had been discovered in the previous year, in which also the collection of implements discovered in the river-drift of the Valley of the Somme, formed by M.
This bed was covered with "made ground" of an ossiferous and vegetable character.
The ossiferous mound situated immediately above the fire-hearth contained, like the subjacent ashes, a large number of the bones of certain herbivorous animals.
All the ossiferous beds contained the remains of the mammoth, but in the upper stratum they were few, and probably intrusive.
According to M, Lohest, there were three distinct ossiferous beds, separated by layers of stalagmite.
No change, therefore, of climate, nor any remarkable geological revolution is needful to account for the disappearance of the huge British carnivora, the remains of which abound in the ossiferous caves.
An interesting account of the discovery of antiquities of human remains in Kent's Hole, one of the most remarkable British ossiferous caves, is given in a subsequent chapter from the narrative of the Rev.
An interesting account of the discovery of numerous flint flakes, and weapons in all stages of progress, in the celebratedossiferous cave of Kent's Hole, near Torquay, is introduced in a subsequent chapter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ossiferous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bone; bony; ossified
