Here it would appear as if the reindeer were fastened together by lines or reins; if so, it implies that they were
[1. "Prehistoric Times," p. 333.]
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domesticated. In this picture they seem to have become entangled in their lines, and some have fallen to the ground.
And it does not follow from the presence of the reindeer that the climate was Lapland-like. The ancestors of all our so-called Arctic animals must have lived during the mild climate of the Tertiary Age; and those only survived after the Drift, in the north, that were capable of accommodating themselves to the cold; the rest perished or moved southwardly.
Another group of animals was found, engraved on a piece of the palm of a reindeer's horn, as follows:
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PRE-GLACIAL MAN'S PICTURE OF THE HORSE.
Here the man stands alongside the horse's head--a very natural position if the horse was domesticated, a very improbable one if he was not.
Pieces of pottery have also been found accompanying these palæolithic remains of man.