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in their glaciers, offered no attractions to the hunters of the 

 Early Stone Age, and the period of the great glaciation 

 seems to have long passed away, with its mammoths, woolly 

 rhinoceros, musk-oxen, cave-bears and lions, before man 

 ventured to follow the retreating glaciers northwards beyond 

 the Cheviots. 



The earliest relics of man's handiwork in Scotland 

 consist mainly of implements of bone or horn, flattened 

 harpoon-heads, with long and well-shaped barbs on both 



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Fig. i. Bone harpoons of Azilian type from prehistoric settlement in Oronsay. f nat. size. 



sides, and rough pick-axes carved from the antlers of red- 

 deer. Implements of stone and flint-chips, rudely dressed, 

 have also been found, but their numbers are too few and 

 their characters too indefinite to point clearly to their place 

 in the recognized cultural stages of European man. The 

 characters of the bone implements (Fig. i) indicate in 

 a general way the Azilian period, a stage regarding which 

 little is known, although it may be placed at the open- 

 ing of the Polished Stone or Neolithic Age, or at any rate 



