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Anthropology

CHAPTER II
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The pieces of decayed bone were not much to look at; yet, submitted to an expert, they did a tale unfold.

He showed them to be the remains of the woolly rhinoceros, the mammoth's even more unwieldy comrade, of the reindeer, of two kinds of horse, one of them the pony-like wild horse still to be found in the Mongolian deserts, of the wild ox, and of the deer.

Truly there was better hunting to be got in Jersey in the days when it formed part of a frozen continent.
Next, the food-heap yields thirteen of somebody's teeth.

Had they eaten him?
It boots not to inquire; though, as the owner was aged between twenty and thirty, the teeth could hardly have fallen out of their own accord.

Such grinders as they are too! A second expert declares that the roots beat all records.


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