Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . rein-deer, and the mammoth with its hairy coat, the climate ofEurope was severer than now, perhaps like that of long man had been in the land there is no clear evi-dence. For all we know, he may have lasted on from anearlier and more genial period, or he may have onlylately migrated into Europe from some warmer like his are not unknown in Asia, as where inSouthern . India, above Madras, there lies at the foot of I.] MAN, ANCIENT AND MODERN. 31 the Eastern Ghats a terrace of iwny clay or laterite,
Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . rein-deer, and the mammoth with its hairy coat, the climate ofEurope was severer than now, perhaps like that of long man had been in the land there is no clear evi-dence. For all we know, he may have lasted on from anearlier and more genial period, or he may have onlylately migrated into Europe from some warmer like his are not unknown in Asia, as where inSouthern . India, above Madras, there lies at the foot of I.] MAN, ANCIENT AND MODERN. 31 the Eastern Ghats a terrace of iwny clay or laterite, con-taining stone implements of very similar make to those ofthe drift-men in Europe. These European savages of the mammoth-period resortedmuch to shelter at the foot of overhanging clifts, and tocaverns such as Kents Hole near Torquay, where theimplements of the men and the bones of the beasts arefound together in abundance. In Central France especially,the examination of such bone-caves has brought to lightevidence of the whole way of life of a group of ancient. Fig. 3.—Sketch of mammoth from cave of La Madeleine (Lartet and Christy). tribes. The reindeer which have now retreated to highnorthern latitudes, were then plentiful in France, as appearsfrom their bones and antlers imbedded with remains of themammoth under the stalagmite floors of the caves ofPerigord. With them are found rude stone hatchets andscrapers, pounding-stones, bone spear-heads, awls, arrow-straighteners, and other objects belonging to a life like thatof the modern Esquimaux who hunt the reindeer on thecoasts of Hudsons Bay. Like the Esquimaux also, theseearly French and Swiss savages spent their leisure time incarving figures of animals. Among many such figures foundin the French caves is a mammoth, Fig. 3, scratched on a 32 ANTHROPOLOGY. [char piece of its own ivory, sa as to touch off neatly the shaggyhair and huge curved tusks which distinguish the mammothfrom other species of elephant. There has be
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