THE OLD STONE AGE 
flake tools and weapons were longer, narrower, thinner, and 
more delicately worked. Cro-Magnon man made flint 
knife blades, points, borers, scrapers, and planing tools. 
He used stones both as hammers and anvils and also for 
throwing, while from horn and bone he made javelin points, 
drills, and polishers (Fig. 44). He undoubtedly utilized 
wood to a great extent; indeed many of the flint imple- 
ments found evidently were meant to be used in working 
up that material into various objects. 
Yet the Aurignacians, far ahead as they were of any of 
their predecessors of the Old Stone Age, still depended 
wholly for their livelihood upon hunting, fishing, and the 
Fic. 45. Baton de commandement of reindeer antler, with engravings of 
wild horses. After Lartet and Christy 
gathering of such vegetable foods as they found growing 
wild. They had no domestic animals, not even the dog; 
nor had they grasped the idea of making pottery, even the 
crudest. Nothing exists to show that they had canoes, and 
they seem not to have known the bow and arrow. Yet 
they probably built huts or wigwams of saplings covered 
with sheets of bark or with skins, at least for their summer 
camps. 
During the Late Aurignacian we begin to find a curious 
object consisting of a section of reindeer antler with a 
rounded hole bored through it, generally at the point where 
the main shaft, or “beam,” and the brow-tine join. At first 
they ornamented this with rude engravings, but in later 
times with elaborate carvings. It is commonly called a 
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