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We know that the use of poison was known at the most remote historic antiquity. The Greeks and Scythians used the venom of the viper, and other peoples employed vegetable poisons. There is nothing to prevent our believing that similar methods were in use in prehistoric times. Amulet made of the penien bone of a bear, and found in the Marsoulas Cave.
The Marsoulas Cave has yielded one bevelled arrow shaft, made of reindeer antler, with a deep groove on the surface. A similar arrow-head was found in the Pacard Cave, and in other places arrows have been found with one or more grooves on the surface. Were these grooves or drills intended to hold poison, and was man already acquainted with this melancholy Diode of destruction?
Fragment of rib on which is engraved a musk-ox, found in the Marsoulas Cave. Head of a horse from the Thayngen Cave. Bear engraved on a bone from the Thayngen Cave. I referred above to ail exceptional example of prehistoric art found beyond the borders of France. All, especially the last named, are rendered with such perfection, that it was at first supposed that they were the work of a forger.
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