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covered, and from several caves have been obtained bone 

 whistles, formed by boring the carpal and tarsai bones of 

 ruminating quadrupeds. A sculptured dagger, made of a 

 single piece of reindeer s horn, attests the contemporaneous 

 existence of that animal in the south of France. A cylin 

 drical tool found in the same vicinity bears upon one side 

 the heads of two aurochs, while upon the other are the pro 

 files of two horses, with a human face between them. 



Fig. 101. The Hairy Mammoth (Elephas primigenius) restored. 



The exploration of the dolmens, or monuments of enor 

 mous unhewn stones, so abundant in France, England, and 

 Scandinavia, but unmentioned in the most ancient history 

 of these countries, shows them to have been constructed by 

 men of the Reindeer Epoch. Some of them, from the pres 

 ence of polished stone and even of bronze implements, be 

 long evidently to the closing stage of this epoch. These 



