210 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. ICHAF.VII. 



accompagne constamment, au contraire les ossements 

 d'animaux domestiques, elle est 1'ceuvre des populations 

 de 1'age de la pierre polie et sa. presence dans un gise- 

 ment quaternaire (palaeolithic) est pour nous une signe 

 de remaniement." 1 



Means of obtaining Fire. 



, In all probability the Cave-man obtained fire by the 

 friction of one piece of hard wood upon another, as is 

 now the custom among many savage tribes. Sometimes, 

 however, as in the Trou de Chaleux, quoted by M. 

 Dupont, 2 he may have obtained a light by the friction of 

 a bit of flint against a piece of iron pyrites, as is usual 

 with the Eskimos of the present day. 



Implement-Making. Sewing. 



-fc- The occupations which centred then, as now, round 

 the hearth, were for the men the manufacture of articles 

 for the chase, and for the women the preparation of food 

 and clothing. Flint and chert pebbles were collected 

 and fashioned into various articles (see preceding figures 

 in this chapter), near the fires; into spear-heads, such 

 as (Figs. 47, 48), arrow-heads, flakes, borers, and saws 

 for cutting antlers and bones ; into needles, spear- 

 heads, and harpoons. The skins of the wilcLjanimals 

 were prepared for clothing and other purposes, and 

 sewn together with a thread of reindeer sinew. 3 This 

 was most probably the duty of the women. Some of 



1 Matfriaux, 1871, p. 225. 



2 Les Temps Prthistorique en Belgique, 2d edit. p. 153. 



3 This is proved by the marks of cutting on the bones of the feet, 

 pointed out by Prof. Ed. Lartet. 



