280 PALJEOLITHIC EEMAINS. 



All the carvings appear to be on reindeer horn or bone, as 

 also the spear-head harpoons, &e., which have been found here. 



Reindeer horn is still used for weapons by the Esquimeaux 

 and other savages. 



The variety of weapons and implements found in these caves 

 of Aquitania is astonishing. The following j)urposes are 

 enumerated in the volume to which reference has been made, 

 viz : implements for shooting, darting, stabbing, clubbing, 

 cutting, chopping, flensing, scraping, smoothing, grinding, 

 boring, drilling, and other work required in peace or war ; in 

 hunting or fishing, in domestic operations, or in designing 

 works of art; cooking stones, hearths, mortars, bodkins or 

 sewing needles ; personal ornaments and amulets perforated for 

 stringing, whistling instruments, musical pipes, batons, possibly 

 suggestive of rank or dignity ; owner's marks, tallysticks, and 

 possibly even gambling tools, have been found, and are described. 



The lesson which these small relics seem to teach is that they 

 point to a greater antiqiiity of man than has, until recently, 

 been assigned to him ; but there is nothing in them which 

 contradicts the idea of the unity of the human race. 



