Well, Iam afraid the evidence directly tendst hat way, nor need 
we be surprised if they were, as many savage tribes practise it 
even in our own day, at any rate children’s bones have been 
found split open for the extraction of the marrow, and still 
showing plainly evidence of cooking and the marks of human 
teeth. That their dress was pretty much like that of modern 
savages, and consisted of skins, we may conclude from the 
fact of their bone needles and bodkins, flint piercers, &c. 
being almost identical with those in use with the Esquimaux 
and Laplander of the present day; their ornaments too were 
much the same, and consisted of teeth or shells perforated 
and strung together. In one of the Bone Caves lately dis- 
covered in France there were found, among other things, no 
less than 22 pounds weight of the bones of the water rat, 
either scorched or roasted, and which had evidently served as 
food when more inviting fare had failed, so there was at any 
rate no novelty in the poor Parisians eating rats during the 
late disastrous siege. The most interesting relics of the 
polished Stone Epoch are furnished by the ‘‘ Kjoekken-moed- 
dings,” or “ Kitchen-middens,” which means simply kitchen 
refuse heaps, these are large flattened mounds or beds of 
shells; they were long supposed to be natural deposits of 
fossil shells, and their true character has only recently been 
known,—they mark the site of the villages or settlements of 
our early fathers, and are of course always situated close to 
the sea; the huts of our ancestors must have surrounded these 
kitchen-middens, and each household must have contributed its 
share of oyster shells, cockle shells, fish and animal bones, &c., 
forming the heap, which often rises to a height of eight or 
ten feet, while the length is sometimes as much as 1,000 feet, 
with a width of 150 to 250 feet. These refuse heaps (first 
noticed in Denmark) have been found in England, France, 
Australia, and America. In these kitchen-middens numerous 
most interesting flint relics have been found and also bones 
of the domestic dog, who, however, appears to have been fre- 
quently eaten by his master in times of scarcity. I have said 
that pre-historic man buried his dead in caves, but there is 
now no doubt that during the latter part of the Stone Epoch 
and the beginning of the Bronze, there arose those mysterious 
stone structures which have puzzled the world for so many 
