rn France to procure the
flint they used. They also procured, from the same source, fossil
sea-shells, which they valued highly.<34> We also notice the fact, that
certain localities appear to have been used as the place of manufacture
for certain articles, to the exclusion of others. In other words, the
primitive people appear to have learned the great utility of a division
of labor. One of the caves in Belgium appears to have been used as a
place to make flint implements. Over twenty thousand articles of flint
were found in this cave.<35> In France, while in one cave the implements
were all of the spear-head type, in a neighboring cave horn was almost
the only article used in the manufacture of implements. We must not,
however, form an exalted idea of their trade--it was simply barter
in a rude state of society.<36>

Illustration of Flowers on Reindeer's Horn.--------

Various opinions have been held as to whether we have any trace of
a religious belief. Theoretically speaking, they had some sort of a
religion, though doubtless very vague and indistinct; for we know of
no nation as far advanced as they were destitute of it.<37> It has been
pointed out, that the bones of some animals, as the horse, were very
rare, and their absence explained as the result of superstitious
reasons. It has also been conjectured that some of the perforated bones
and teeth of animals found in various deposits were amulets worn for
religious purposes; and some have gone so far as to infer, that the
ornamentations on some of these so-called amulets represent the sun,
and that, consequently, sun-worship prevailed among the Cave-men.
While these various conjectures are, of course, possible, it is equally
certain they are all "mere guess-work."

Illustration of Ornamented Reindeer Horn---------------

Early explorers describe with considerable degree of confidence the
manner of burial among the Cave-men, and inferred from the remains found
buried with the bodies that they had some notion of a life beyond the
grave--and, accordingly, placed near the body food and drink to support
him on his journey, weapons wherewith to defend himself, and his
favorite implements, so that, arrived at the land of spirits, he
would be well provided for. These result are not borne out by later
investigations. The instance mentioned most prominently, that of the
burial cave at Aurignac, France, has been shown to have no bearing on
the question, as every t