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Title: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Geological Society of London
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: London (etc.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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cy of the observa-tions, I examined every shovelful of debris as it was thrown out bythe workmen; while the exact spot where they were excavating waswatched by Mr. Williamson. The white flint spear-head was pickedout of the undisturbed matrix by him ; the remainder of the imple-ments were found by me in the earth thrown out from the sameplace. Thus there can be no doubt as to their exact position ; anderror of observation is rendered very improbable. Two of the speci-mens are similar in workmanship and general outline, though not insize, with two of the typical forms found at Amiens and Abbeville,which Evans terms respectively spear-heads and sling-stones. Thespear-head is of white flint (figs. 2-5): in outline, size, and workman-ship it resembles a beautiful semitransparent quartz-rock specimenfrom the burial-mounds of North America, in the possession of Dr.Acland. The bone arrow-heads resembled most strongly in size andoutline a flint arrow-head, also from the burial-mounds of North
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1862.) D A WKINS HY2ENA-DEN. 119 America, and in the possession of Dr. Acland*. The chert arrow-head is dissimilar to any that I have seen. A splinter, which isbounded on one side by a straight cutting edge, appears to me tohave been used as a knife, and to have been intentionally chippedinto its present form for that purpose. But what inference can be drawn from these signs of Manspresence in a Hyaena-den filled with unmistakeable remains of afauna now extinct in Europe ? Was the fabricator a contemporaryof the British Cave-bear, Ehinoceros, Mammoth, and their congeners?Or did he leave his implements in the cave at a time posterior to thatof the other creatures whose remains are associated with them in thePost-glacial period ? If the former be answered in the affirmative,Man, instead of having appeared on the earth some 6000 or 7000years ago, must have existed at a time anterior to the glacial epoch f,and at a time when the relations between land and water were alto-gether different,

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