THE ARRIVAL OF MAN IN EUROPE 



artistic talent save the Eskimos ; and in this 

 respect there is complete similarity between the 

 Eskimos and the Cave-men. But this is by no 

 means the only point of agreement between the 

 Eskimos and the Cave-men. Between the sets 

 of tools and weapons used by the one and by 

 the other the agreement is also complete. The 

 stone spears and arrow-heads, the sewing-needles 

 and skin-scrapers, used by the Eskimos are ex- 

 actly like the similar implements found in the 

 Pleistocene caves of France and England. The 

 necklaces and amulets of cut teeth and the dag- 

 gers made from antler, show an equally close cor- 

 respondence. The resemblances are not merely 

 general, but extend so far into details that if 

 modern Eskimo remains were to be put into 

 European caves they would be indistinguish- 

 able in appearance from the remains of the Cave- 

 men which are now found there. Now, when 

 these facts are taken in connection with the 

 facts that the Cave-men were an arctic race, and 

 especially that the musk-sheep, which accom- 

 panied the advance of the Cave-men into Eu- 

 rope, is now found only in the country of the 

 Eskimos, though its fossil remains are scattered 

 in abundance all along a line stretching from 

 the Pyrenees through Germany, Russia, and 

 Siberia, when these facts are taken in connec- 

 tion, the opinion of Mr. Dawkins, that the 

 Cave-men were actually identical with the Es- 

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