. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 360 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. Paleolithic period, for the prehistoric man of the Neolithic period chipped many implements of stone. All implements of flint, whether Paleolithic or Neolithic, were made ijartly or wholly by chipping. Arrow and spear heads, knives, scrapers, drills, perforators, and such, of whatever age, period, or epoch, when of flint, were made wholly by chipping, while many implements of stone made by grinding or po
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 360 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. Paleolithic period, for the prehistoric man of the Neolithic period chipped many implements of stone. All implements of flint, whether Paleolithic or Neolithic, were made ijartly or wholly by chipping. Arrow and spear heads, knives, scrapers, drills, perforators, and such, of whatever age, period, or epoch, when of flint, were made wholly by chipping, while many implements of stone made by grinding or polish- ing were first prepared by chipping or hammering. It is, therefore, proper that a paper on Prehistoric art should begin with flint chipping. CHBLLEEN EPOCH (ALLUVIUM). The beginning of flint chipping is found in the flint implements of the Chelleen epoch, called by some persons in Europe the Alluvial, by others the Cave Bear period. M. de Mortillet, in his subdivision of the Paleolithic period, names this the Ghelleen epoch after the station of Chelles (Plate 2), in the val- ley of the Eiver Marne, a few miles east of Paris. This station was. Fig. 1. QUATERNARY GRAVELLY DEPOSIT AT CHELLES, SECTION WHEREIN PALEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS ' ARE FOUND. Cieuziou, Creation de rHoinnie et les Premiers Ages de I'llumauite, p. 172, fig. ItS. chosen as representative because the implements were there found in their greatest purity, though not in their greatest number. These have in England been called drift implements because they have been found principally in the river drifts or deposits. Their original position indicates the same antiquity as the gravel deposits themselves. There was a time when the water of the rivers filled the valleys from hill to hill, pouring down with a rush its irresistible current, eroding the earth, and, if need be, the rock, to make for itself an outlet. As time in^ogressed the water subsided and the current became less pow- erful. The sand and gravel which ha
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