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northern fauna of a cold climate, by hammered stone wea- 
pons, carved and artfully decorated bones, and the short 
skulls of a small and more delicately constructed, buts at sii 
events, a very intelligent art-endowed race of men.’ 
But is it not possible that the two races lived contempaii 
raneously? The Reindeer Folk may have inhabited the 
upper valleys and hills near the Alps and Pyrenees, which 
send spurs into Southern and Central France. They were, 
perhaps, mountaineers, and the animals associated with them, ) 
and most characteristic of the period, were alpine -a l; 
northern species. Like the Lapps and Fins, the men were 
dwarfed, and more delicate; and perhaps more active-minde od 
and ingenious than the Flint Folk. So far from dwelling 7 
exclusively in caves, they may have lived in skin lodges in 
summer, and in wooden or snow huts in winter. ) 
Their neighbors, the Flint Folk, or Lowlanders, a taller 
and stronger race, meantime inhabited the plains of Northern 
France and Belgium, England and Germany, and the fauna 
was made up of the Mammoth, mastodon, and rhinoceros, 
horse, cave-bear (which was much more abundant than with 
the Reindeer people), bison, aurochs, and deer, which in- 
habited the more genial and fertile plains. 
Taking this view, the supposed great length of the Stone 
Age is much reduced ; it explains how two such dissimilar 
races lived side by side, just as the Lapps and Fins lived. 
joré centuries since, not far from the Celts and Ta 
mountainous parts of Europe and the borders of Asi 
ie while the climate was colder on the highlands, on 
plains of Middle Europe it was, probably, much as descri 
by Tacitus and Cæsar. 

of coral and the teeth of wild animals. He probabi red b 
; for the awls and need m teia y dressed in skins or pee 
ve 
arn such materials, but not A at pe Fe Ww 
respecting food. that he from 
the Alps; whether in a s 
possession of 
or various ty will only be decided when we are 
a greater number of skulla,” ei Sess 7 
