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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



[CHAP. vii. 



been handed down to us on a canine tooth of a bear 

 (Fig. 84) in the refuse-heap in the Duruthy cave. 



The Art of the Cave-men Engraving. 



The Cave-men have left behind, as we have seen in 

 the last pages, more vivid pictures of their life and times 

 than those founded upon implements arid weapons and 

 the associated animal remains. Fortunately for us they 

 employed the intervals of leisure from the chase in 

 engraving upon bone, antler, and more rarely on ivory 

 and stone, the hunting scenes which most vividly im- 

 pressed themselves upon their memory. In the caves 

 at Cresswell the figure of a horse (Fig. 53), delicately 

 incised on a fragment of rib, is the first trace of the art 

 of design in this country, proving that the faculty of re- 

 presenting animals, so wonderfully developed among the 

 Cave-men of France, was shared also by those of Britain. 

 The horse, it will be observed, has an upright or hog 

 mane, and a large coarse head. The animal is frequently 

 represented in a similar manner on bone and antler 

 in the caves of France. In La Madelaine, for example, 



FIG. 85. Horses incised on Antler, La Madelaine, \. 



two horses (Fig. 85) are seen, with hog-manes and large 

 heads, and with tails rough and tangled. Sometimes 

 their heads are small and the necks long, as in those 

 found in the Kesslerloch cavern. A hunting scene, in 



