Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1892 — Wild Horses as Food. [ARTICLE]

Wild Horses as Food.

The wild horses that roamed over Europe in Immense herds appear to have furnished the chief food of early man in Europe, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Enormous refuse heaps, consisting mainly of the bones of wild horses, have been found outside of the caves, as in those at the foot of Mount Pellegrino, near Palermo, where the floor is formed of a magma of the bones of wild horses, which were either stalked with spears, driven by the hunters into pitfalls or chased over the cliffs. Similar deposits have been found at the cave of Thayngen, in Switzerland, and in front of the rock shelter at Solutre, near Macon, where there is a vast deposit, the relics of the feasts of these savages, nearly ten feet in thickness and more than three hundred feet in length, composed entirely of the bones of horses, and comprising the remains of from twenty to forty thousanl indlvidals.