ave been indulged in as to whether the men of this
age were cannibals or not. It need occasion no surprise if they were,
since ancient writers assert that even during historical times this
practice prevailed in Europe.<22> Though not definitely proven there
are many facts difficult of explanation, except on this supposition.
However, it may well be that this, after all, only amounted to the
custom of eating parts of an enemy killed in battle, as certain modern
savages do that we would not call cannibals.<23>

It is not necessary to speak at much length of the methods of hunting.
They had bows and arrows, daggers of reindeer horn, spears tipped with
flint or bone, and harpoons. Besides, they made a formidable club of the
lower jaw-bone of the cave-bear with its canine tooth still left in its
place. Fishing with nets is not supposed to have been known, Harpooning
was probably their favorite way. M. G. DeMortillet thinks they fished as
follows: They fastened a cord to the middle of a small splinter of bone.
This was then baited, and when swallowed by the fish, was very certain
to get caught in the body.<24>

We know that rude tribes of to-day have many means of snaring animals.
Doubtless similar scenes were enacted on their primeval hunting-grounds.
French books contain illustrations of the men of this period driving
game over precipitous sides. They had no dogs to assist them in the
hunt, and though reindeer were around them in great abundance, it is not
supposed that they thought of domesticating them.

Man is the only animal which seeks to protect his body from the
Summer's heat or the cold of Winter by the use of clothing. We are,
unfortunately, not able to present many details of the dress of man
during the early Stone Age. We are, however, quite certain that when the
climate was severe enough to permit such animals as the musk-sheep
and the reindeer to inhabit South-western Europe, man must have been
provided with an abundance of warm clothing, though doubtless rudely
made and fashioned. Many reindeer horns found in France are cut and
hacked at the base in such a way as to indicate that it was done when
removing the skins. We also know that the rudest of savage tribes are
never at a loss for some process of tanning hides and rendering them fit
for use. From the immense number and variety of scrapers found among
the cave _debris._ we are sure the preparation of clothing occupied no
inconsiderable portion of their ti