Capitolo 90
admitting that we cannot determine the length of time application
for this deposition, nobody can doubt anchor, that asks a lot for a
long time indeed. It says the Mr. Geikie: "How much rolled centuries
past while that flooring of old man was slowly accreting, nobody is able
says; but what it represents an error of centuries compared to that
the time embraced by every tradition and history written is but as
some months that that is competent to form an opinion they are able
doubt?" But after this long period of quiet, from of the source
the great streams of water came rolling through the cavern. We know
this to be so, because in places it broke on this layer of
stalagmite and it washed away it, as the great portions of the
breach under, and after the floods had stopped, every now and then
floods threw down still layers of mud and slime.
This accumulation is known as earth of cavern, and it is the layer
containing the numerous rests of the Cavern-man. Here the
not only explorers were stricken with the great number of
utensils, but it immediately noticed that they was of a taller form
and it did better. Instead of the ill-mannered ones and thick utensils of
the tribes of Motion, we make to cut forms more delicate everybody
around. And we also meet there with those that are able from their form
you/he/she is used as the heads of lances or arrows. Bows were
it also used for various purposes. We also find
utensils, weapon and ornaments of bone--a footstep in advance of
Culture of motion. They had "harpoons to pierce through fish from the eyes,
needles or bodkins to sew together skins, awls perhaps to
you facilitate the passage of the slender needle through the difficulty,
thick hideaways; pins to assure their skins brought, and
the teeth of rates pierced for necklaces or bracelets."<6>
Nothing of some kind has still been shown as belonging to the men
of the Motion.
Illustrations of Lance-head and Bow-----------
The bones of a big number of animals are also found in the
earth of cavern. The most abundant is the hyena, and without their doubt