230 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP.VII. 



quently mingled together by previous diggers, as well as 

 by the burrowing animals. There seems to me no case 

 on record up to the present time which establishes the 

 fact that the Cave-men were in the habit of burying 

 their dead so securely as to keep out the hyaenas. 

 The fragmentary remains of the human frame left in the 

 refuse-heaps may reasonably be taken to imply that dis- 

 regard for the bodies of the dead which is so conspicuous 

 among the modern Eskimos. 



Relation of the Cave-men to the River-drift men. 



In the course of this chapter we have seen that the 

 river-drift implements in the caves of Cresswell Crags, 

 of Kent's Hole, and of the Grotte de 1'Eglise, are found 

 in the strata below those with the implements of the 

 Cave-men, and consequently thatCthe Eiver-drift men 

 lived in Britain and France before the Cave-men. ) (We 

 have also noted that the latter are in a different stage of 

 culture from that which was enjoyed by the former, the 

 implements being not only better, but, taken as a group, 

 of a different kind, although some simple forms, such as 

 the flake, scraper, and hammer-stone, are common to 

 both.; How are they related to each other? Is the 

 culture of the latter the outcome of the development of 

 that of the former \ Or is it to be viewed as having been 

 introduced into Europe by a totally different race ? In 

 dealing with these difficult questions several important 

 considerations must be weighed. First, the absence of 

 the higher types of implement in the camping-places 

 of the Eiver-drift men cannot be accounted for on the 

 ground that they are smaller, or that they are partly 

 composed of bone and antler, which are more perishable 



