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removed the implement from the flint block in a finished 

 condition, when he, too, stops of a sudden. Near to him 

 are several others splitting bones either for their marrow 

 or for material for implements, etc. One old fellow has 

 broken a leg bone of one of the trophies just secured in the 

 chase; beside him are two pointed flint wedges. He has 

 already inserted one into the narrow cavity, and the bone* 

 is splitting in several places but the skeletal element is firm 

 and healthy, and grips the wedge tightly, and splitting re- 

 quires force applied several times. 



FIG. 190. Drawing of mammoth on piece of mammoth tusk. From 



the Cave of the Madeleine in southwest France. The drawing was 



made by prehistoric man of the early Post-Glacial times. (One- 

 third natural size of the drawing.) 



"A little farther away there is a fire on the hearth which 

 has baked the underlying loam into a red brick for several 

 feet in extent. Over this is roasting a boar's head, till the jaw- 

 bones are becoming so exposed that before the great episode 

 of the evening is finished they will all be reduced to charcoal. 

 Near at hand there are also several of the community en- 

 gaged in taking off the damaged flint points broken in the 

 chase, and replacing these truncated butt ends with new 

 flint tops; consigning these broken portions to the accumu- 

 lating midden or refuse heap. The number of these flint 

 butt ends that have accumulated tell us that these flint 



*Now in the British Museum. 



