Identifier: worldsinhabitant00bett (find matches)
Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ian natives ; he was destitute ofmetal, and could not sharpen his stones well. From continental evidencethis early race of man in Western Europe is believed to have had a longand comparatively narrow type of skull, with prominent jaws. They arenot supposed to be identical with any race now living. THE OLD CAVE-DWELLERS, WHO CARVED HORNS. An advance is seen when we come to the early cave-dwellers, ofwhom we find remains in England, Accumulations of earth containingremains of many species of animals, not merely deposited there at deathby the animals themselves or their animal captors, but showing signs ofhuman action and cookery, are found in many caves, with fragments ofRude charcoal and numerous flint implements. These remains areweapons, very often in many successive layers, frequently cemented to-gether by slow deposit of limestone as stalagmite in limestone caves, and EARLY INHABITANTS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS testify to a lapse of many thousands of years during- their formation. The
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implements become more finished, though still rude, and more decidedlance heads, choppers, and borers are found, some adapted to be used ma THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE. wooden handle. Togetlier with these, in the caves of the Cresswell crags,Bone needles Derbyshire, was found a small piece of a rib, polished, and orna-andiiaxpoons.jjjej^^e(j with a cut drawing of a horse. In other caves, suchas Kents Cavern near Torquay, bone needles and awls, and harpoons ofreindeer antler have been discovered. Many other engraved and carvedimplements of this period have been found in France and elsewhere. It is not supposed that the cave-men used their caves all the yearround. They encamped in the open air except when driven to shelter bystress of weather. They cooked their meat with the aid of hot stones, cut-Mode of cook- *^^S ^^ with flint flakes, and extracting the marrow from the mar-ing and row-bones after they had been broken. They also snared birdsand even caught fish. Wood, skin, and horns af

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