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Survey of the Ancient World
Century after century the sand and earth continued to blow
into such caverns, and fragments of rock fell from the ceiling.
Thus masses of rubbish accumulated on the cavern floor, and
in one case it was as much as forty feet deep. To-day we find
among all this rubbish also many layers of ashes and charcoal
from the cave dwellers' fire (see Ancient Times, Fig, 9), besides
numerous tools, weapons, and implements which he used.
These things disclose man's further progress, step by step,
and show us that he had now left the old fist-hatchet far be-
hind and become a real
craftsman.
10. The in- - — flint chips
MiddieStone -t- t »t st"l found at the door
Mitraie stone Fig. 3. Ivory Needle of the . , .
geman Middle Stone Age of hls cave show us
, ... ... how the hunter must
Such needles are found still surviving m
the rubbish in the French caverns, where have sat there care-
the wives of the prehistoric hunters lost fully chipping the edges
them and failed to find them again twenty Q£ ^jnj. ^00]s J}y
thousand years ago. They show that these .
women were already sewing together the 'nls time ne had a con-
skins of wild animals as clothing siderable list, of tools
from which he could
select. At his elbow were knives, chisels, drills and hammers,
polishers and scrapers, all of flint (Fig. 2). He could now
produce such a fine cutting edge by chipping (see Ancient
Times, § 15) that he could work ivory, bone, and especially
reindeer horn. With his enlarged list of tools he was able to
shape pins, needles, spoons, and ladles, all of ivory or bone,
and carve them with pictures of the animals he hunted in the
forest (Fig. 4). The fine ivory needles (Fig. 3) show that the
hunter's body was now protected from cold by clothing sewed
together out of the skins of the animals he had slain. He also
fashioned keen barbed ivory spear points which he mounted,
each on a long wooden shaft. He had also discovered the
bow and arrow, and he carried at his girdle a sharp flint
dagger;
Survey of the Ancient World
Century after century the sand and earth continued to blow
into such caverns, and fragments of rock fell from the ceiling.
Thus masses of rubbish accumulated on the cavern floor, and
in one case it was as much as forty feet deep. To-day we find
among all this rubbish also many layers of ashes and charcoal
from the cave dwellers' fire (see Ancient Times, Fig, 9), besides
numerous tools, weapons, and implements which he used.
These things disclose man's further progress, step by step,
and show us that he had now left the old fist-hatchet far be-
hind and become a real
craftsman.
10. The in- - — flint chips
MiddieStone -t- t »t st"l found at the door
Mitraie stone Fig. 3. Ivory Needle of the . , .
geman Middle Stone Age of hls cave show us
, ... ... how the hunter must
Such needles are found still surviving m
the rubbish in the French caverns, where have sat there care-
the wives of the prehistoric hunters lost fully chipping the edges
them and failed to find them again twenty Q£ ^jnj. ^00]s J}y
thousand years ago. They show that these .
women were already sewing together the 'nls time ne had a con-
skins of wild animals as clothing siderable list, of tools
from which he could
select. At his elbow were knives, chisels, drills and hammers,
polishers and scrapers, all of flint (Fig. 2). He could now
produce such a fine cutting edge by chipping (see Ancient
Times, § 15) that he could work ivory, bone, and especially
reindeer horn. With his enlarged list of tools he was able to
shape pins, needles, spoons, and ladles, all of ivory or bone,
and carve them with pictures of the animals he hunted in the
forest (Fig. 4). The fine ivory needles (Fig. 3) show that the
hunter's body was now protected from cold by clothing sewed
together out of the skins of the animals he had slain. He also
fashioned keen barbed ivory spear points which he mounted,
each on a long wooden shaft. He had also discovered the
bow and arrow, and he carried at his girdle a sharp flint
dagger;