They wear high hats or chignons, tight waists, and bell-shaped skirts.

Really, considering that we thus have a contemporary fashion-plate, so to say, whilst there are likewise the numerous stencilled hands elsewhere on view, and even, as I have seen with my own eyes at Niaux in the sandy floor, hardened over with stalagmite, the actual print of a foot, we are brought very near to our palaeolithic forerunners; though indefinite ages part them from us if we reckon by sheer time.
* * * * * Before ending this chapter, I have still to make good a promise to say something about the neolithic men of western Europe.

These people often, though not always, polished their stone; the palaeolithic folk did not.

That is the distinguishing mark by which the world is pleased to go.

It would be fatal to forget, however, that, with this trifling difference, go many others which testify more clearly to the contrast between the older and newer types of culture.