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EARLY MAN 



What we know positively regarding the antiquity of man 

 is more interesting, and there is little doubt that our 

 common ancestry was a wild and hunting race in the time 

 of the mammoth and vSaber-toothed tiger and other huge 

 animals, literal cave dwellers, clothed, if at all, in skins, 

 battling with clubs of wood and stone and enabled to kill 

 the big game with their crude weapons on account of their 

 superior intelligence. The proofs of this are interesting. 

 The mammoth was the largest land animal of the Quater- 



FiG. 191. — Bone bearing Drawing of Mammoth, by Early Man. 



nary time, and near Tomsk, in Siberia, the remains of a 

 burned mammoth were found with evidences that men 

 had dined at the feast. Bones have been found in count- 

 less localities showing that man existed in his present form 

 ages ago, and that untold periods in the past must have 

 elapsed since his first appearance upon the globe. 



The life of the archaeologist is a fascinating one, and it 

 is open to all, as, at least, in America, the entire country 

 from Gay Head to Santa Catalina Island on the Pacific 

 coast has been inhabited doubtless for ages and by many 

 peoples. Many of the oldest discoveries have been in the 



