. Archæology and false antiquities. crust was bustedFalling- down a shaft in Calaveras County,But Id take it kindly if youd send the piecesHome to old Missouri! It would be utterly hopeless to attempt to wade throughthe vast amount of literature bearing on this controversy—scattered, as it is, in so many books and journals on. Fig. •:;o. Incised Figures on Lenape Stone both sides of the Atlantic—or to present a digest of thearguments of the various disputants. But this decisionmay be rather an advantage to my readers than other-wise, because, so far as I have looked into the matter,the disputa
. Archæology and false antiquities. crust was bustedFalling- down a shaft in Calaveras County,But Id take it kindly if youd send the piecesHome to old Missouri! It would be utterly hopeless to attempt to wade throughthe vast amount of literature bearing on this controversy—scattered, as it is, in so many books and journals on. Fig. •:;o. Incised Figures on Lenape Stone both sides of the Atlantic—or to present a digest of thearguments of the various disputants. But this decisionmay be rather an advantage to my readers than other-wise, because, so far as I have looked into the matter,the disputants seem to be ringing the changes on thesame materials. Nor would a detailed criticism of evidence, TERTIARY MAN IN CALIFORNIA 89 primarily based, to a large extent, on observations andstatements of inexperienced and non-scientific witnesses,be of much value—for there can be no retrospectiveexamination of the precise relation of the skull to thestratified gravels in which it was found. Probably thediscoverer never thought of strata, or of looking intosuch a matter, yet this is the crux of the whole question is not whether a certain person found theskull in gravel at the bottom of a deep mining shaft,but how, and when, it came to be placed there. Myobject will be best attained by placing against e
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