Other caverns have as certainly been used as dwellings.  Hence the name of “cave-dwellers,” which has been given to those otherwise unknown races.  How very crude and primitive their mode of life is shown by the vast quantities of tools and weapons in hard flint—­generally broken—­which are found intermixed with the other remains.  They are very simple:  heads of spears, blades of knives and scrapers, some indented like coarse saws, hatchets and mallets chipped into shape with no attempt at polishing—­such, with occasional variations in bone, was the sum total of the cave-dwellers’ equipment for the chase, for war, and for domestic purposes.  That they could, with such slender resources, hold their own against the animals whose haunts they shared and who then were so much more numerous than men, is the more wonderful that those animals were of monstrous size, more than twice the size of the same kinds now, not to speak of some huge beasts which then roamed woods and plains in herds and are now wholly extinct—­such as the mammoth, the ancestor of our elephant.

In all those heaps of tools and fragments, not a trace of any metal has been found; wherefore this oldest of all times of which we can catch stray glimpses has been given the general name of “Age of Stone.”

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