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stances. Hence in the same sites very different kinds 

 of arrow-heads may be found. Thus it happens that 

 on the old Indian sites arrow-heads of the most varied 

 character are found, and that when we succeed in dis- 

 covering the places where arrows were made, we find 

 that various and often distant places had been resorted 

 to for the material of the manufacture. A conclusive 

 evidence of the contemporaneous use of so-called 



Fig. 25. STONE ABEOW-HEADS, MODEBN. (From Hopkins Island, Canada.) 



Palaeolithic and Neolithic weapons appears to be 

 afforded by the caverns of Beaumes Chaudes, in France, 

 where skeletons of the old type of cave-men are found 

 under circumstances which show that they were slain 

 with arrows of small size and neatly made, portions of 

 which are found actually imbedded in their bones. 

 Thus the " Neolithic " men of Europe must have 

 fought with the " Palaeolithic," a fact which American 

 analogies would quite prepare us to expect. In illus- 



