. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. 36 The Prchistonc Hunter. In the hardened beds of these caves are found flint and bone implements, and sketches and carvinj,'s on bones, which show that the men of the caves were much more advanced tlian the men of the ilrift. They hunted the same }j;ame, but it appears that the mam- moth and j^reat elk had now diminished in numbers, and tliat the herds of reindeer had so increased that this period in the history of prehistoric man is often call
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. 36 The Prchistonc Hunter. In the hardened beds of these caves are found flint and bone implements, and sketches and carvinj,'s on bones, which show that the men of the caves were much more advanced tlian the men of the ilrift. They hunted the same }j;ame, but it appears that the mam- moth and j^reat elk had now diminished in numbers, and tliat the herds of reindeer had so increased that this period in the history of prehistoric man is often called the reindeer period. To the flint axes, spears, and knives of the tlrift-men, the cave- dweller had added the arrow and bow and fish-harpoons, the heads of which were skillfully and with j^reat labor cut with flint-flakes out of the horn and bone of the reindeer. Some of these harpoons are armed with barbs alon^ their sides; others are formed of lance- shaped pieces of bone, broad and hollow at their bases, showinj,^ that these were probably placed on the end of a shaft, and con- nected therewith by a lon_ij cord. On strikinj^ the fish the head of the harpoon would separate from the shaft, and the fish could be played and landed by the cord. Mr. Phillips has shown, in his chapter on "The Primitive iMsh- hook," that the cave-dwellers probably used a flint-flake, or splinter, in a manner similar to the baited needle used in these days in " snig- glinir" for eels and pike. A similar angling implement, made of bone, has been found among the relics of the pile-dwellers in the .Swiss lakes, and our Indians of I'Venchman's Hay, Maine, seem to have used a like angling tool. .According to Dr. Keller (" Lake- dwellings of .Switzerland and other parts of Europe"), the sniggler yet survives in Switzerland, where it is used for catching wild ducks. The fish-bones and carvings found in the caves show that their inhabitants speared or caught the salmon, trou
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