. Popular science monthly. PL. III. Male Figure in Bas Relief, Aurignacian age; rock shelter of Laussel.(Dordogne). After Lalanne, LAnthropologie, XXIII., 147, 1912. MAN, HIS ENVIRONMENT AND HIS ART 15 Across the Channel in the Ouse valley, at Piltdown, Fletching(Sussex), there has recently come to light a flint-bearing gravel with aremarkable association of human osseous and cultural remains withthose of a Pliocene and Quaternary fauna (Pliocene elephant, Masto-don, Hippopotamus, Cervus elaplius, beaver, horse). The gravel bed is80 feet above and a mile removed from the present bed of the Ous
. Popular science monthly. PL. III. Male Figure in Bas Relief, Aurignacian age; rock shelter of Laussel.(Dordogne). After Lalanne, LAnthropologie, XXIII., 147, 1912. MAN, HIS ENVIRONMENT AND HIS ART 15 Across the Channel in the Ouse valley, at Piltdown, Fletching(Sussex), there has recently come to light a flint-bearing gravel with aremarkable association of human osseous and cultural remains withthose of a Pliocene and Quaternary fauna (Pliocene elephant, Masto-don, Hippopotamus, Cervus elaplius, beaver, horse). The gravel bed is80 feet above and a mile removed from the present bed of the plrvsiographic features of this region have suffered no appreciablechange since Eoman times, hence the relation of the present Ouse bedto the one that existed when the Piltdown gravels were deposited indi-cates a great antiquity for the latter. All the relics in it are certainly. Fig. 6. Eoanthropus datcsoni. (J nat. size.) After Dawson and Woodward. Q. J. G. 8., LXIX., 141, 1913. as old as the deposit. All or some may be older. The somatic char-acters of the human skull (Fig. 6), especially the lower jaw, postulategreat antiquity, as does the nature of the rude flint implements. Thatthe latter were found in association with a very primitive human typewould seem to give such implements a standing hitherto denied themby some authorities; unless it can be proved that they were derived froma deposit antedating the one which originally contained the humanremains. Their pedigree was needed in order to make industrial gene-alogy complete, just as the skull itself was needed to fill a gap in mansphysical evolution. It remains for the geologists to determine whetherin Piltdown the prehistorians Eosetta stone has at last been they will be able to tell us also whether a channel separated theman of Piltdown from his contemporaries in the near-by valley of t
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