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destroy the Mammoth. The large size of the animal would 
preclude its concealment, and the increase of man would imply 
a corresponding destruction of animals for food. That it was 
hunted by the reindeer folk, in France, is proved by its remains, 
and especially by the rude drawing in outline, in the caves of 
the Dordogne. It is therefore extremely probable that it 
became gradually extinct, because it was hunted dowm for food 
by man. No other explanation will satisfy all the conditions. j 
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