An introduction to the study of social evolution; the prehistoric period . From Forrer. Urgeschichte dps Europiicrs, FIOUEE 27. stone Tmplcmr-nts of the early Pnloolitliif Period,Strepyan and Cliollean. Mr. Marett tolls of a cave in Jersoy, noar tlio 1)ay ofSt. Brelado, where anthropologists dug down throughsome twenty feet of clay and rock rubbish, probably car-ried there in the course of the last ice age I)y some glacialtorrent, and discovered a ]irehistoric hearth witlt thelarge stones tliat had prop)ied ii]) tlie fire, and even someashes. Bones were found in a heaj) of food-refuse, 74 SOCI
An introduction to the study of social evolution; the prehistoric period . From Forrer. Urgeschichte dps Europiicrs, FIOUEE 27. stone Tmplcmr-nts of the early Pnloolitliif Period,Strepyan and Cliollean. Mr. Marett tolls of a cave in Jersoy, noar tlio 1)ay ofSt. Brelado, where anthropologists dug down throughsome twenty feet of clay and rock rubbish, probably car-ried there in the course of the last ice age I)y some glacialtorrent, and discovered a ]irehistoric hearth witlt thelarge stones tliat had prop)ied ii]) tlie fire, and even someashes. Bones were found in a heaj) of food-refuse, 74 SOCIAL EVOLUTION which when examined proved to be the remains of thewoolly rhinoceros, the reindeer, of two kinds of horses,of a wild ox, and of a deer. Thirteen human teeth werefound in the food-heap. But Mr. Marett was unable totell whether man or beast did the eating. These teeth. Prom Forrer, Urgeschiclite des Europaers. FiGUKE 28. Flint Implements of the Chellean Epoch. were large, the kind that would go with an immenselypowerful jaw, needing a massive brow-ridge to counter-act the strain of the bite—in general the Neanderthaltjrpe, large brained perhaps, yet quite ape-like. Thediners had also left their knives about,—^flint implementschipped only on one side.^^ The chipped flint implements of prehistoric man differin such a way that we are able to recognize several stages 31 Marett, R. R.—Anthropology, in The Home University Library, & Co., 1912, p. 37. THE ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF MAN 75 in their development and even to assign the approxi-mate years during which each was in vogue. Tlie rouoh
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