. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, ferent times, they are classified as the: (1) PiltdoAvn skull, found in 1911 by Mr. Charles Dawson in PiltdownCommon, Fletching, England, and named—Eonthropus Dawsoni. (2) Heidelberg Jaw—Homo Heidelhergensis—found near Heidelberg in theMauer Sands in 1907. (3) A brain-case—Pithecanthropus Javanensis—found a few years ago in Java. (4) The Neanderthal, Mousterian and the Chapelle aux Saints skiills. Philosophy of History, Vol. I, p. Appenrlix. Xote ?>. 68 AECH^OLOGICAL EEPORT. (5) The Tal^ai skull, relic of jiKistoceiie mail, now in the Museum
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, ferent times, they are classified as the: (1) PiltdoAvn skull, found in 1911 by Mr. Charles Dawson in PiltdownCommon, Fletching, England, and named—Eonthropus Dawsoni. (2) Heidelberg Jaw—Homo Heidelhergensis—found near Heidelberg in theMauer Sands in 1907. (3) A brain-case—Pithecanthropus Javanensis—found a few years ago in Java. (4) The Neanderthal, Mousterian and the Chapelle aux Saints skiills. Philosophy of History, Vol. I, p. Appenrlix. Xote ?>. 68 AECH^OLOGICAL EEPORT. (5) The Tal^ai skull, relic of jiKistoceiie mail, now in the Museum of theUniversity, Sydney, Australia. It was found near Talgai, in the Darling Downs,Queensland, and is completely mineralized. Then there are Grimaldi skeletons,the Cro-Magnon remains and many others found in caves in France and some of these skulls and remains were found a few eolithes (eo-dawn,Uthos-stone. dawn stones) which some anthropologists believe to be the earliestform of tools, or weapons, used hy savage Oiio-iiuil Men. An Assuni|iti()ii liv W. .T. Tliiniisini. DIVERSITY OF OPIXIOX A:\10Nr; SCIEXTISTS. Mr. Dawson and Dr. Smith AVoodward contend that the latest of the finds,the Piltdown skull, belongs to the late ])kistocene ])eriod and is, probably, twohundred thousand years old. But Sir Eay Lankester, Keith, Harrison and Eeed-Moir. say that man was on the earth in the early pleistocene ])eriod, that is, fromfive hundred thousand to a million of years ago. Sir John Lubbock and manyEuiopeau and American ])aleontologists, arguing from the discovery of thesechipped flints, a few stone hammers and other rude stones and peculiarly shapedimplements found in glacial moraines, drifts and land-faults claim that theseeolithes were fashioned by ])i-imiti\e uum in an inconceivably remote past. ButLapparent, Boule and Obermair. leading authorities in paleontology, do notaccept these flints as the work of man. They proclaim these eoUtltes to be merelyfrag
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