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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



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ivory, and teeth. Some of these were composed of 

 canines of bear and lion (Fig. 76), of which no less 



FIG. 76. Tooth of Cave-lion, Duruthy Cave. \. 



than forty were found in the cave of Duruthy variously 

 engraved (see Figs. 75, 76, 82, 84), forming a magni- 

 ficent trophy of the chase. 



Hunting. 



The animals hunted by the Cave-men in northern 

 and central France were principally reindeer, horses, and 

 bisons, and occasionally mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, 

 cave-bears, uri, musk sheep, and ibexes. The hunters 

 were armed with spears tipped with flint and bone (Figs. 

 47, 48, 63, 65, 66, 68), with daggers of reindeer antler, 

 some bearing beautifully-carved handles, as well as with 

 bows and arrows. The accompanying sketch, 1 incised on 

 a piece of antler, left behind by one of the hunters in 

 his dwelling at Laugerie Basse (Fig. 77), and figured 

 by M. Massenat, shows that the game was sometimes 

 stalked. A large ox is represented feeding, with his 

 head down, while behind a naked human figure, with 

 dishevelled hair and beard, has crept up, and is in the 

 act of throwing a spear. The victim is considered by 



l Mcuftriwx t 1869, p. 348, PI. 33, Fig. 1. 



