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When the Wurm glacier retreated northward, thus freeingcentral Europe of ice, our progenitors, Cro-Magnon men, ap-peared armed with the bow. Their arrow points were of Soulu-trean culture, the highest development of pressure flaking.These points are artistic in design and some are wafer thin.Their celebrated paintings in the deep recesses of certain caveslocated in Southern France and Spain sometimes depict arrowsin the slaying of such game as bison, reindeer and wild horse.It must be assumed that these men used the bow to protecttheir families from the cave bear, the cave lion, the cavehyena and the tiger—dangerous beasts, all. |
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