And to tell you plainly, these are scrapers such as the Esquimaux in North America still use to scrape the flesh off bones, and to clean the insides of skins.
But did these people (savages perhaps) live when the country was icy cold?
Look at the bits of bone.

They have been split, you see, lengthways; that, I suppose, was to suck the marrow out of them, as savages do still.

But to what animal do the bones belong?
That is the question, and one which I could not have answered you, if wiser men than I am could not have told me.
They are the bones of reindeer--such reindeer as are now found only in Lapland and the half-frozen parts of North America, close to the Arctic circle, where they have six months day and six months night.

You have read of Laplanders, and how they drive reindeer in their sledges, and live upon reindeer milk; and you have read of Esquimaux, who hunt seals and walrus, and live in houses of ice, lighted by lamps fed with the same blubber on which they feed themselves.

I need not tell you about them.
Now comes the question--Whence did these flints and bones come?
They came out of a cave in Dordogne, in the heart of sunny France,--far away to the south, where it is hotter every summer than it was here even this summer, from among woods of box and evergreen oak, and vineyards of rich red wine.