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chamois, and marmot on the elevated mountains of Central 

 Europe; the antelope, saiga, and probably the horse on 

 the boundaries of Europe and Asia " (" Les Temps Pre- 

 historiques en Belgique," p. 216). 



On the other hand, M. Pietrement holds that the indi- 

 genous people of France — the direct descendants of those 

 of Palaeolithic times — as soon as they came under the influ- 

 ence and instruction of the dolmen-builders, derived their 

 domestic animals from the wild stocks of the country, among 

 which he includes the horse. He contends that the domestic 

 animals introduced by the Neolithic races — ox, sheep, goat, 

 pig, dog, and horse — were not in sufficient numbers to 

 supply the whole of Europe. The idea of domesticating 

 animals would, therefore, according to this author, come 

 into Western Europe through the incoming Neolithic people 

 who hailed from eastern lands (" Les Chevaux dans les 

 Temps Prehistoriques et Historiques," 1883, p. 134). 



Professor Eolleston, F.E.S., having before him the results 

 of Canon Greenwell's researches in the British barrows, 

 makes the following statement : " I have never found the 

 bones or teeth of a horse in a long barrow, and I would 

 remark that, whilst such bones are very likely to be intro- 

 duced into such barrows in the way of secondary interments, 

 I have not met with any exact record as to the finding of 

 them in surroundings which left no doubt as to their being 

 contemporaneous with the primary interments. The bones 

 of the horse are both durable and conspicuous, and it is 

 difficult to think that if the Neolithic man had used the 

 animal either for purposes of food or for those pf carriage, 

 as his predecessors and successors did, we should not have 

 come upon abundant and unambiguous evidence of such use " 

 (" British Barrows," p. 736). 



Lord Avebury also gives expression to a similar opinion : 

 " Eemains of the horse are very rare in English barrows, and 

 I know no well-authenticated case of their occurrence in a 

 long barrow. I have thought, therefore, that it might be of 

 interest to point out the class of graves in which bones or 

 teeth of horses were found. In Mr Bateman's valuable 

 works there are, altogether, twenty-eight cases, but of these 



