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dragged in a great many others; but the agency of man is equally
apparent, as the bones have often been separated for the extraction
of marrow. Besides bones of the hyena, we also have those of the
lion, tiger, bear and reindeer.<7>
Illustration of Harpoons, Pin, Awl and Needle--the Cavern in Kent.
With these animals you equip, at times, disputed possession
of the cavern. To that place on the surface of the earth of cavern it is
you find what is known as the black ribbon."" This is not anything more or
less that the fire-place of these old tribes. Here we find
wood fragments partially consumed, bones that show the action
of fire--in short, every thing that points out a prolonged occupation
from man.
Nobody can doubt but that this deposit of earth of same cavern
it asks for once prolonged for his/her accumulation.<8 > But this
period, however prolonged, for a long time it ends. From some
you cause, animals and men, abandoned again the cavern.
Another enormous cycle of rolls of years street--once expressed in
thousand of years--during how shed again on nature
the rests put in the grave a layer of stalagmite, in of the places you equalize
in the bigness to the first formation. Above of this layer we come to
a bed of you forge containing rests of the later Stone Age, of the
Bronzes, and also of the Iron age. Under the first layer of
stalagmite--the biography completed of the times of Paleolithic; above,
the book not ended of the present. Man is the eloquent ones
results gotten by the complete exploration of a cavern.
The results of all the other explorations, in a general way,
you confirm these. The Mr. Dawkins explored a group of caverns in
Derbyshire, England. These caverns and cracks are situated in
what is known as Steeples of Cresswell, the steep sides of a
ravine through that the flows a brook of water that divides the
counties of Derby and Nottingham.
This cut represents the different strata in the cavern of Chest of Robin.
You/he/she will be seen that, to a place, the stalactite has united,
with the stalagmite under. It is not necessary to go in the