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‘Switzerland up to the sixteenth century, and the wild boar, 
still abundant in Central Europe. : 
The Mammoth, then, was hunted in middle Europe by a 
hardy race of men (the Reindeer Folk), savage, it is true, 
but who wielded the spear, and shot flint-headed arrows at 
the enormous beasts they hunted; and, resting from the 
fatigues of the hunt, engraved on ivory* the animals slai 
by them with a sort of hard-pointed style; whose wives 
probably made garments of skins sewed with delicate bone 
needles, and whose families seemed to have been well housed 


*t In the working of bones, we pe reals ae ce rd a the reindeer, these Reindeer men 
oer » a Ne RS ce ws w-heads with barbs, knives, and daggers, 3 
ing the por and similar objects, awls and 
needles of considerable fineness, with oe 5 fit for the passage of a thread; handles 
found 1 a quanti ity, and some unfinished Specimena roai the troublesome mode 


“ The art products of the Reindeer Pads who inhabited France are of particular in- 
terest, The decorations on many pots and implements, CETT, a simpe sity 
angular, or c: cei lines, exhibit a SENA sense for beau 
mals, as ovri by MM. Lartet and Garrigou, are still avin surprising. ener 
by M. Gar 

upon the s of the bone, and it may be seen that the — in working it, tw 
the bone in various directions, some ar the lines showing a flat inside turned su 
. Many of these drawings are known to the public by the treatises of Lartet and Ch 
on the caves of Perigord; but I can, from m n inspection, assert that there exist 
that eee many i others, | and these highly eina stic., Thus 
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my frien aster cas found in a heap of bones oftl 
eala period, at at Madelaine, n pear Tursac (Dordogne). Ti is a kind of kitchen-mi¢ 
at the foot of a br and two and a 
métres thick. In th iddl I i were found. Oa of these pieces 
broken-off femur of a swan, The animal d 1 upon it has a short thick tail e 
along the back, imitating somewhat rudely the aspect of the reindeer in s mmer, m 
, Whilst the belly prey 
the short dark — hair, _ Some short lines before the forefoes na pig resent 
hair of th e throat. SUEUR of Lag femu VI a tibia. p 
Te eg following each other (?), the one being known by its meee: 
lers. Further re iigrsice will, no doubt, increase our treasury of art products of 7 
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