Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-09

According to Prof. Boyd Dawkins, the nu-
merous discoveries made in France, Belgium
and Switzerland have enabled scientists to
form tolerably definite idea as to the cave
mans habits and mode of life. He dwelt for
the most part in caves, and he accumulated
enormous masses of refuse bones of the ami
mails on which he lived. In these refuse
heaps were numerous implements of stone,
bone and antler, spear-heads, arrow heads,
scrapers, elaborately-c cut harpoon heads, elab-
crate needles of bone and antler, and along
with these occurred curious carvings repro
senting the surroundings of the cave man, and
for the most part reproducing the forms of
tho animals on which he lived. From the
numerous implements for scraping skins, it
might be inferred that the cave man dressed
in skins, sewn together with needles. They
also wore gloves, as is known from the repre-
sentations of gloves, with two, three or four
fingers, and running almost up to the elbows,
like the 26'button gloves of the present time.
Perforated stones and shells, and the teeth of
bears, lions and wolves, were used as neck
laces and amulets. They adorned themselves
with red raddle, which might be looked upon
as the lineal ancestor of rouge.
In their hunting they used spears and ar
rows. On one bit of antler found in France
hunter was represented creeping carefully
up to a gigantic ox-the great urus; in others
ibexes; and in others the great woolly man.
moth was represented so faithfully that, were
it not for the discovery of the creature in the
frozen morGsses of Siberia, it would be said
that the drawing was quite wrong. On other
slabs of stone might be seen the birds and
fishes on which the cave men lived. All these
outlines were made with q splinter of flint,
and in great many cases were engraved on
the bones and teeth of the animals represent
ed. The cave men were also sculptors, and
the handles of some of their daggers, made
of reindeer autler or ivory, sometimes repre-
sented the kneeling form of a reindeer and
sometimes that of an elephant. The cave
men we're hunters pure and simple, without
knowledge of the metals, without domestic
animals, and even ignorant of the potter art.
Nor have they left behind them any evidence
that they were in the habit of burying their
dead.
Can the cave men be identified with any
living race The answer is to be found in
their habits, implements and art. On the
shores Of the great Arctic sea, on both sides
Of Behring's straits, and along the north of
the American continent and Greenland, live
the Esquimsux, people cut off from all 9TH
ers, and whose origin is puzzle to the eth
nologist. These people have exactly the same
habit of accumulating refuse, their imple-
ments are Of exactly the same kind, and their
art is identical with that of the cave man in
Europe. They live to large extent on tho
same animals, and are careless as to what hap
pens to their dead. From all these lines of
| argument it may be inferred that the Esqui
mau is in all probability the living represen-
tatiye of the cave man, just as the musk sheep
now living in Esquimau-land is undoubtedly
/ the representative of the musk sheep then
| living in France.