The Prehistoric Hunter. 



a sound is produced that can be heard at a considerable 

 distance. " How many thousands of years," says Dr. Rau, 

 in his ''Early Man in Europe," "may have elapsed since 

 the sharp call of those whistles rallied the savage hunters 

 when they were following the track of the reindeer or 

 the horse !" Nil: 



In their habits of life, the cave-dwellers resembled the 

 Esquimos. They left the remains of their feasts around 

 them in their caves. They could not have 

 lived amidst such refuse except in an arctic 

 climate; and this supposition is confirmed by 

 the fact that the bones of the musk-ox and 



KISH-SPEAR, 



reindeer which are found in these caves be- kents cavern. 

 long to animals which now live only within or quite 

 near the arctic circle. That a cold climate then existed 

 is also shown from the bones of birds, whose variety 

 also proves that they were expert fowlers. The snowy- 

 owl, — now only found in the cold north, — the arctic 

 willow-grouse, the ptarmigan, the capercailzie, and a 

 species of crane, were the feathered game of these old 

 sportsmen. 



In the cave of La Madelaine, in the valley of the 

 Vezeres, has been found a bone lance-head, 

 on which is engraved a flock of birds, presum- 

 ably ducks, as they scud along the water just 

 before rising on the wing.* 



But this resemblance of the cave-dwellers 

 to the Esquimos does not stop here. They are also alike 

 in having similarly formed flint and bone implements, and 

 in their peculiar talent for carving with flint-flakes on 

 stone and bone. 



The cave-men were clad in furs. These they cut into 

 shape with flint knives, and made into garments by sewing 

 them together with the sinews of reindeer, threaded on bone 

 needles. On their hands and arms they wore long fur gloves, 

 to protect them from the intense cold. 



FISH-SPEARS, LA 

 MADELAINE. 



* See " Reliquiae Aquitanicae ; of Christy and Lartet," p. 24, fig. 5. 

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