Note 6 — Chapter II · Food, Cannibalism, Mammals Fish, Hunting, and Fishing.

The Abbé Chierici, speaking at the Brussels Congress6 of the excavations in one of the Reggio caves, remarked that human bones were mixed with those of animals, and that both showed traces of having been burnt. These bones date from the Neolithic period, and with them were picked up various objects of remarkable workmanship, including fragments of pottery, half a grindstone for crushing grain, and some admirably polished serpentine hatchets.