PRIMEVAL MAN 217 



It is probable that during the immense 

 stretch of time which in Europe covered the 

 growth of the various successive Palseohthic, 

 and finally Neolithic, cultures — the "old-stone" 

 ages during which man used stone implements 

 which he merely chipped and flaked, and the 

 "new-stone" age in which he ground and 

 pohshed them — there happened time and again 

 what has happened in the history and pre- 

 history of man in Africa and North America. 

 One of the incidents in this parallelism is the 

 way in which the inhabitants accepted animals 

 already trained and brought from elsewhere 

 rather than attempt to train the similar beasts 

 of their own forests. Doubtless the reason 

 why the European bison is not a domestic 

 animal is exactly the same as the reason why 

 the American bison and African buffalo are 

 not domestic animals. The northern European 

 hunting savages were displaced or subjugated 

 by, or received a higher culture from, tribes 

 bringing from Asia or from the Mediterranean 

 lands the cattle they had already tamed. The 

 same things happened, in Africa south of the 

 Sahara while it was still shrouded from civilized 

 vision, and in America since the coming of the 

 European. 



These hunting savages existed for ages, for 



