. Anthropology. andfish-hooks. In other parts of France, as at Excideuil, at Solutr6in the Pyrenees, the method of working the flint continued toimprove, and implements in the shape of laurel leaves, with finelysharpened borders, became common. It was then that the art of 2 P 2 436 PREHISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY. [Chap. ix. polishing the flint must have commenced, one possibly imported by-some conquering nation, but probably also by the application to thestone of the process which had already been practised upon double epoch of the Mammoth and Eeindeer was therefore aconsiderable one, and ye
. Anthropology. andfish-hooks. In other parts of France, as at Excideuil, at Solutr6in the Pyrenees, the method of working the flint continued toimprove, and implements in the shape of laurel leaves, with finelysharpened borders, became common. It was then that the art of 2 P 2 436 PREHISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY. [Chap. ix. polishing the flint must have commenced, one possibly imported by-some conquering nation, but probably also by the application to thestone of the process which had already been practised upon double epoch of the Mammoth and Eeindeer was therefore aconsiderable one, and yet from the Mammoth period to the presenttime the interval is almost nothing as compared with the periodduring which Man previously existed. The temperature in Europe,contrary to that of the succeeding period, was hotter than it isnow. Man, whose flint implements have been found in thePliocene formation of St. Prest, hunted the Elephas meridionalis,the Rhinoceros etruseus, the S. Merckii, and the R. Fig. 42.—Neanderthal akull in profile (Mammoth epoch). At the close of the Miocene epoch, when we have the sheUheaps of Pouance, Man was in conflict with the mastodon andthe halitherium, and he possessed a knowledge of fire. We areless acquainted with his ancestors who worked the flints found bythe Abb6 Bourgeois at Thenay, in the lower Miocene, below theLa Beauce chalk. But his existence at that epoch—one but littledistant from the period at which are deposited the Meudon millstoneor the Fontainebleau sandstone—is a clearly revealed scientific possess his implements : they indicate a tolerable amount ofintelligence : but his remains are wanting. Up to the presentmoment archseologists, or rather geologists, have never found thesmallest fragment of a human bone. All these questions will beconsidered in detail in the volume of the Bibliothfeque des Chap, ix.] PEEHISTORIC EACES. 437 Sciences Contemporaines, now in the press, entitled AicWo-logie Pr^historiqu
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