Archaeology -- Juvenile literature; Cave dwellers -- Juvenile literature
"_But many could find no protection, so
they turned about and faced the storm_" 87
"_And so the Cave-men tested the boys in
many different ways_" 104
"_Then their antlers crashed in a swift
charge_" 108
"_They looked so much like wolves that
they got very close before the bison
threatened_" 113
"_What the Cave-men did for Flaker_" 116
"_People began to wander away from their
old homes_" 129
"_It was the melting of this glacier which
fed the little stream_" 136
"_Greybeard, now old and feeble, walked
all the way to the spot_" 171
_After the bison hunt_ 181
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_A reindeer_ 16
_A stone ax_ 24
_A stone knife_ 32
_A laurel leaf_ 32
_Laurel leaf-shaped spear point_ 32
_A stone scraper_ 34
_A shaft-straightener_ 35
_A delicate spearhead_ 36
"_When the Cave-men held the flint in
the hand, the hand yielded to the
light blow_" 37
"_While Scarface placed the punch he
sang in low tones_" 37
_Straightshaft using a flaker_ 38
_A flaker_ 39
_An ibex_ 43
_A bear's tooth awl_ 51
_A scraper_ 73
_A skin stretched on a frame_ 73
_A hammer of reindeer horn_ 74
_A cave-man's glove_ 80
_A stone maul_ 89
_Fur gloves_ 90
_A snowshoe_ 91
"_Then she set snares on the ground
and fastened them to strong branches_" 94
"_Antler learned to protect the cord
by running it through a hollow bone_" 94
"_So it ran along and nibbled the bait
until its sharp teeth cut the cord_" 95
_A chisel-scraper_ 98
_A barbed point_ 99
_A harpoon_ 100
_Chipper using a spear-noose_ 102
_A Cave-man's carving of a "hamstrung"
animal_ 114
_A wedge or tent pin_ 119
_The head of a javelin_ 120
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