228 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP.VII. 



MM. Lartet and Chaplain-Duparc consider that the 

 necklace belonged to the possessor of the skull (A), who 

 may have been killed by the fall of the blocks of stone 

 found above it ; and they account for the absence of the 

 rest of the skeleton by the suggestion that the body was 

 devoured by wild beasts. The necklace is a remarkable 

 trophy of the chase, for besides proving that the Cave- 

 men were in the habit of killing lions and bears, the 

 engravings with which most of the teeth are adorned are 

 of singular interest. Most of them are marked with 

 deep artificial grooves and with the barbed heads of 

 harpoons or arrows, similar to those we have figured, 

 and one of which was found near the skull at the point 

 C. On one bear's tooth a pair of gloves has been 

 engraved, on another is to be seen the figure of a pike 

 standing out in relief; while on a third the figure of 

 a seal has been engraved in outline with its character- 

 istic head and flippers admirably drawn (see Figs. 75, 

 76, 82, 84). It is, therefore, evident that the hunter 

 of the Western Pyrenees depended not merely upon 

 the animals haunting the forests and the plains for 

 food, but that he descended from time to time to the 

 shore, and waged war against creatures living in the 

 sea, after the manner of the modern Eskimos. 



The human skull is referred by its discoverers, and 

 Dr. Hamy, 1 to the same race of men as those found 

 in the cave of Cro-Magnon. Its crushed condition, how- 

 ever, and the absence of the facial bones, render this 

 view doubtful, although enough of it is preserved to show 

 that it was long. The skulls from the Neolithic tomb 

 above are also long, and are considered by their dis- 

 coverers to belong to the same race as those of Cro- 



1 Bull Anthrop. Soc. de Paris, ix. (1874), p. 527 et seq. 



