FROM PRIMITIX E TO MODERN MAN 



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footinii. Tlu'V took from him at will and his ri'taliatlon was jjotli IVcblc and 

 ineflcctiial. They, rather than \\v, were still the masters of the situation. This 

 condition of ailairs was destimd to eontuuie until some critical discovery, 



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Courtesy, Amtrican Museum of Natural History 



FIG. 330. IMFLLMEN rS AND ORNAMENTS TYPICAL OF UPPER PALEOLITHIC AGE. 

 I. Knife Bl;iclc or Spc.-ir-point of Flint. 2. Knife or Etching Tool of Flint. 3. Planing Tool of Flint. 4. I lar- 

 poon Point of Bone. 5. Lance Point of Bone. 6. Pendants of Elk Teeth. 7. Beads of Shell. 8. Bone Fragment 

 with Partially Etched I lorse. 9. Bone Fr.igment with Traces of Geometric Design. 



some happy chance revealed a new instrument or a new- method w hose dead- 

 liness at leni^th plaei'd m human hands the means which ga\e man his ulti- 

 mate supremacy owv tluse crt'atures w ho had so lon^ terrorizt'd and preyed 

 up(jn him. That this new agent was the work, ol his hands can scarcely I)e 

 questioned. Some modihcation ol the old Hint weapons or the shaping oi an 

 implement eapabli' ol destro\ing the marauders provided man with such a 

 margin ol saiet\' that he no longer came oil second best in his contact with 

 Ins unrelenting assailants. Whether this new agency was a combination of 

 the use' ol lire with a more elheient weapon, or some other means, the lact 

 rt'mams that Ni-andeithal man ultimateK' dro\-e the hostile carni\'ores out ol 



