Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men (1897) (14780335141)

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Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University



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e left in the caverns and gravelbeds. As for the horse, he also ranwild, and it does not appear that in anypart of Western Europe, at least in the 302 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. old stone age, this noble animal hadi reduced to domestication. But hisflesh was eaten in common with that ofmany other animals. As a general fact the cave dwellerswere exceedingly carnivorous in theirEating habits of habits. This is the one char-the aborigines of acteristic of their method Western Eu-rope, of life which discriminates them so strongly from the Aryan house-folk described in the preceding chapter. already remarked, the marrow of thebones was sought with avidity, andscarcely a single fragment was left un-explored for this delicacy. In the rudelife of the cavern the bones were simplybroken or crushed by some of the heav-ier stone implements employed by thecave dwellers. But the more approvedmethod was to cut the bone longitudi-nally with a stone saw. Specimens ofthis work are plentifully preserved in
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HUNT OF THE WILD BOAR.—Drawn by Emile Bayard. It is doubtful whether by the rudertype of the cave men the soil was culti-vated at all. They availed themselvesof many vegetable growths, ate mastsand roots and wild fruits of the woods,and even devoured the barks of trees;but it does not appear that the rationalcultivation of the soil was practiced oreven Jaiown by these rude barbarians.They lived for the most part on the fleshof animals, and this was generally tornfrom the skeleton and eaten raw. As nearly all the principal museums of theworld. The bones of the ox, the sheep,the goat, the reindeer, the fox, the wolf,and especially of the dog, are foundtreated in this manner in the debris ofthe caverns. Nor is there any mis-taking the purpose and intent of the bar-barians in this work. We have now, in our consideration ofthis archaic type of man in WesternEurope, arrived at the point where theimplements and utensils of his household PRIMEVAL MAN.—CAVE DWELLERS OF EUROPE. 303 may be a