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The implements of the Palaeolithic Period were produced by
chipping only ; they are usually of large size and appear to have
been used simply in the grip of the hand, and not hafted in handles
of wood or horn as was the case with the Neolithic imple-
ments. Some may have been fastened to wooden pikes, forming
heavy spears or javelins and so used against the large and
powerful animals with which Palaeolithic man had to contend.
The animal bones found associated with these implements of the
River Drift, indicate species many of which are now extinct in
or are foreign to Western Europe, e.g., the Mammoth, the
Woolly-haired Rhinoceros, the Hippopotamus, the Urus, the
Musk-ox, the Reindeer, &c.
Of the River-drift people little can be said, as nothing but
these rude implements remain to show what manner of men they
were. However, the discoveries in the Bone-caves of England,