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that now roam over the plains of Northern Asia (Fig. 189). 

 They used flint and bone implements, which they manufac- 

 tured with much skill (Figs. 190, 191). They were probably 

 clothed in dressed skins, ornamented with embroidery, in 

 the manner of the North American Indians. They used 

 shells and carved bones as ornaments. Recent discoveries 

 at Soloutre, in France, render it probable that some of 

 the tribes had tamed the horse, and resided in fortihed 

 villages. They buried their dead with offerings, indicating a 

 belief in immortality. These Post-glacial men are certainly 



Fig. 188.— Engis Skull. Reduced.— After Lyell. 

 The Skull of one of the Men of the Mammoth age. 



known as yet only in Europe; and we cannot therefore de- 

 termine if they represent the average man of the period. 

 There may have been dwarfish or degenerate tribes in the less 

 temperate climates. There may have been fruit-eating or 

 agricultural peoples in the more genial and fertile lands of the 

 east and south. The conditions above sketched are, I think, 

 fairly deducible from the facts stated by Christy and Lartet, 

 Dupont, Riviere, Dawkins, and others, who have studied the 

 remains of these early men, the Palxolithic nun of some 

 writers, or the men of the Mammoth age, and whom I have 



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