. Archæology and false antiquities. Fig 2. Lower Jaw of a Skeleton found in theGrotte de Spy, Belgium (§) After Fraipont jaw (Fig. 3), found in one of the Quaternary caves ofBelgium, near Dinant, in the valley of the Lesse. Ac-cording to Broca a non-retreating chin is a more recentcharacteristic, and consequently, the greater amount ofbackward slope indicates a nearer approach to theSimian type.^ If this law of human development beaccepted, then the deposition of the Moulin-Quignonjaw was evidently a fraud. This is the verdict which, ^ See Prehistoric Problems, pp. 122 et seq. CONTINENTAL FORG
. Archæology and false antiquities. Fig 2. Lower Jaw of a Skeleton found in theGrotte de Spy, Belgium (§) After Fraipont jaw (Fig. 3), found in one of the Quaternary caves ofBelgium, near Dinant, in the valley of the Lesse. Ac-cording to Broca a non-retreating chin is a more recentcharacteristic, and consequently, the greater amount ofbackward slope indicates a nearer approach to theSimian type.^ If this law of human development beaccepted, then the deposition of the Moulin-Quignonjaw was evidently a fraud. This is the verdict which, ^ See Prehistoric Problems, pp. 122 et seq. CONTINENTAL FORGERIES 37 after a long interval of reflection, finds general accept-ance among anthropologists of the present day. But,unfortunately, at the time M. de Perthes looked upon thematter as a question affecting only his personal was taken out in his presence and, therefore, it mustbe authentic. Lady Prestwich tells us that it was a bitter. Fig. 3. Naulette Jaw, Side View (}) After Dupont disappointment to him that his English friends, in ac-knowledging the fact of the human jaw having beentruly found as described, yet refused to admit that it be-longed to a remote antiquity.^ M. G. DE MORTILLET ON THE FALSIFICATION OFANTIQUITIES IN FRANCE In September, 1885, M. G. de Mortillet published inthe journal called UHomme a long article entitledFaux Paleoethnologiques, in which he describes anumber of systematic falsifications. From this articleare culled the following instances of forgery as havingoccurred on French territory. One of the most famous is that of M. Meillet, ofPoitiers, who, though a man of education and a dis-tinguished chemist, had become possessed of a mania ^ Loc. cit., p. 91. 38 ARCHEOLOGY AND FALSE ANTIQUITIES for mystifications—*Mon plus grand plaisir, avouait-ilcyniquement, est de foutre dedans les savants. TheGrotte du Chaffaiid (\f\ere.), the first which furnished anauthentic sculptured bone of the
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