208 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP.VII. 



refuse at Solutre l in the valley of the Saone, above 

 Lyons, and the implements at Chez-Pourre, in the com- 

 mune of Brive, 2 show that ^encampments were found in 

 the open air close to water at the same spot year after 

 year.^ The habit of camping in the open air must have 

 been the rule rather than the exception, because caverns 

 and rock-shelters are only met with in very limited areas, 

 and generally. at some distance from the most fertile 

 plains, where game would be most abundant. The rarity 

 of subaerial refuse-heaps compared with those in caves 

 and under rocks may be explained by the greater 

 liability of the former to be destroyed by the rain, frost, 

 and other atmospheric agents, even wearing away or re- 

 arranging the surface soil. (JProbably the huts were 

 formed of branches of trees, or of skins, like the summer 

 tents of the Eskimos ; and the same materials may have 

 been used for making the caves and rock-shelters more 

 comfortable. \ 



-A Domestic Pursuits. No Pottery. 



From these refuse-heaps we can make out the domes- 

 tic pursuits of the Cave-men as distinguished from their 

 hunting, fowling, and fishing. The game brought home 

 to the rock-shelter or cavern was either roasted or cooked 

 by means of hot stones or "pot-boilers." Flint flakes 

 were used for dividing the meat, and the bones were 

 broken for the sake of the marrow. Some of the scoops 

 (Fig. 56) have probably been used as marrow spoons. 



1 Lartet and Ducrost, Sur la Station Prehistorique de SolutrJ, Archives 

 du Museum de Lyon, t. i. p. 1. 



2 M. Lalande, Materiaux (1869), p. 458. This "station" has fur- 

 nished the same spear-heads, scrapers, and choppers, as those of the caves 

 of the Cresswell Crags. 



