. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 368 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 13 and 14, those from WyomiDg; 15, from Mount Yeruon, Virginia. Plates 3 and 4 rej^resent a series from the District of Columbia and Mount Vernon,Virginia, respectively. As examples of the ear- liest art products of man throughout the world, this series is inserted. It has been contended that human occupation during the Cavern peri- od in Europe was con- temporaneous with the Glacial period, that the in
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 368 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 13 and 14, those from WyomiDg; 15, from Mount Yeruon, Virginia. Plates 3 and 4 rej^resent a series from the District of Columbia and Mount Vernon,Virginia, respectively. As examples of the ear- liest art products of man throughout the world, this series is inserted. It has been contended that human occupation during the Cavern peri- od in Europe was con- temporaneous with the Glacial period, that the inhabitants had thereto- fore lived without parti- cular habitations, and the climate being warm and moist, they were without particular need of any; but on the ap- proach of cold, incident to glaciers, the inliabi- tauts retreated to the caverns for warmth and shelter. It appears certain that there was at the beginning of this epoch a material change in human art and industry. The Chelleen and St. Acheuleen implements, so widespread, were superseded by objects now found in the caves and rock shelters oc- cupied by man. This statement might be doubted if it rested on a few objects, but its truth will be apparent when we consider that these implements have been found throughout western Europe by hundreds of seekers, in thousands of places, and to the number of tens of thousands, but never associated with cave implements or objects; while on the other hand, tens of thousands of cavern implements and objects have been found in their appropriate places and never associated with Chelleen or St. Acheuleen implements, I say never— if any have been thus found, the proportion is insignificant, not one in a huuilred; so that the statement is substantially true. Fig. 11. BUDE CHIPPED FLINT IMPLEMENT OP PALEOLITHIC TYPK. Side aucl edge views. Texas. Cat. iUhi, l, natural Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally e
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