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the indigestible parts of his food such as bones and shells, and 

 the harder parts of his clothing such as buttons and ornaments. 

 Precisely the same sort of remains of primitive man were found. 

 Side by side with the weapons he used to kill the animals, were 

 found their bones, sometimes split to get at the marrow, and 

 later, traces of ornaments. 



The weapons man used might be divided into three classes, 

 which were found under different conditions. Roughly speaking 

 Palceolithic weapons (unpolished) were found with river drift and 

 cave man; Neolitliic (polished) with the man of kitchen middens 

 and tumuli; Bronze with man of the lake dwellings and of some 

 cromlechs. If the bones of the men themselves were not so 

 often discovered, that was because man bore but a small pro- 

 portion, as regards bulk, to the mass of refuse which would 

 accumulate during his life. He moA'ed little in those days, but 

 he probably did not die just where he lived. 



The lecturer went on to prove the existence of early man 

 from these weapons, both because they were found under the 

 same conditions all over the world, and because the weapons 

 showed traces of gradual development ; and further because these 

 weapons were still in use among savage tribes. Having quoted 

 from Sir John Lubbock as to the habits of the Fuegians and 

 Esquimaiix, to show in what low estate man even now existed, the 

 lecturer went on to show what traces of man's food and dress, 

 at various times, could, in fact, be found. Investigation showed 

 that man lived on animal food at first, on the beasts killed in 

 the chase, or the fish caught in river or sea. It was not till very 

 much later that traces of corn were found. Schoolcraft was quoted 

 to shew that the Indians did not believe their zea (maize) to be 

 indigenous. There was one sort of habit which seemed very 

 terrible — cannibalism. It should be remembered however that 

 even civilized men, under stress, similar to that under which 

 primitive man lived, had been driven to this resort, and further that 

 savages ate the bodies of warriors, in the hopes of partaking of 

 their courage — the old and not the young were the subjects of 

 cannibalism. The first form of dress was ornament — painting 

 and tattooing, and adding rings to the nose, or wooden blocks 

 to the lips. But these would leave no trace. Skins were much 

 used for dress amongst savages, and special weapons for preparing 



