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 Early Mankind in Europe 13 Fig. 8. Late Stone Age Tomb in France These tombs are found in great numbers, especially along the Atlantic coast of Europe (but also in north Africa) from Gibraltar to the Norse peninsulas, where they still stand by thousands. One Danish island alone contains thirty-four hundred of them. It was in such a tomb that a dead chief of the Late Stone Age was buried. The stones, weighing even as much as forty tons apiece, were sometimes dragged by his people many miles fr6m the nearest quarry found still sticking in the eyehole of a skull reminds us that War these communities were often at war with one another ; while amber from the north and the wide distribution of a certain Commerce kind of flint found in only one mine of France tell us of the commerce which wandered from one community to another. Such mines reveal very vividly the industries of this remote age. A mine opened by archaeologists in England still contained eighty much-worn picks of deerhorn used by the flint miners ; while in Belgium a fall of rock from the ceiling covered and preserved to us even the body of one of these ancient miners.