Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . had been a still earlier period of the stone age,when yet ruder tribes of men lived in our parts of the world,when the climate and the face of the country were strangelydifferent from the present state of things. On the slopes ofriver valleys such as that of the Ouse, in England, and theSomme, in France, 50 or 100 feet above the present river-banks, and thus altogether out of the reach of any floodnow, there are beds of so-called drift gravel. Out of thesebeds have been dug numerous rude implements of flint, I] MAN, ANCIENT A
Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . had been a still earlier period of the stone age,when yet ruder tribes of men lived in our parts of the world,when the climate and the face of the country were strangelydifferent from the present state of things. On the slopes ofriver valleys such as that of the Ouse, in England, and theSomme, in France, 50 or 100 feet above the present river-banks, and thus altogether out of the reach of any floodnow, there are beds of so-called drift gravel. Out of thesebeds have been dug numerous rude implements of flint, I] MAN, ANCIENT AND MODERN. chipped into shape by the hands of men who had gainedno mean dexterity in the art, as any one will iind who willtry his hand at making one, with any tools he thinks most remarkable implements of this earlier stone ageare the picks or hatchets shown in Fig. 2. The coarsenessof their finish, and the absence of any signs of grindingeven at the edges of hacking or cutting instruments, showthat the makers had not come nearly to the skill of the later.
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