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Show EARLY MAN FIGHTING ANIMAL I Ancestors of Present People Were j Called Upon to Face Beasts That ) Inhabited'Plains and Rivers. j The first houses were caves. Early man was a fighting animal, and had to ! contend against the huge and ferocious feroci-ous beasts that Infested the plains and rivers, observes a writer. His dwelling naturally had to be a place of security as well as a habitation. Caves were j natural and artificial, the latter being hollowed out of solid rock by rude flint I Instruments. Most of them were formed form-ed In the sides of cliffs and among i high, rugged hills. To those early ancestors of ours, the primeval men and women who secured, i as one would think, but scanty shelter ! and protection from these stone caves and holes In the rock, we apply the ' generic term of cliff dwellers. They were entirely ignorant of agrl- i culture, and subsisted by hunting and fishing and on the natural products they found growing In a wild state. What Is very remarkable, at our very doors can still be seen the typical houses and handiwork of those pre-hls-1 torlc tribes in the caves of the Lancoa river In southern Colorado. These, In ' most Instances, are as well preserved as when their ancient occupants deserted de-serted them perhaps 10,000 years i ago. When Inhabited they were reached reach-ed quite frequently by notches cut In the rock, and at other times rope ladders lad-ders must have been used. |