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the site of the engraved bone, in different parts of the same 

 cliff, a flint flake and some bones of animals, fractured longi- 

 tudinally, obviously by the hand of man, for the purpose of 

 extracting the marrow, according to the practice of all prim- 

 itive races. There can be no doubt as to the geological char- 

 acter of the formation from which I disinterred these inter- 

 esting relics." It seems, however, that Mr. Calvert's conclu- 

 sions thus far have not been generally accepted ; doubts even 

 existing as to the artificial character of the supposed engrav- 

 ing. 



The well-known Materiaux (second number, 1873) contain 

 descriptions and drawings (by Mr. Alphonse Baux) of a col- 

 lection of Japanese arrow-heads made of chalcedony, jasper, 

 and flint, which are identical with those found in this coun- 

 try. These weapons, it is stated, are quite common in the 

 island of Jesso, where they are found in the soil after heavy 

 rains. They are not used at present in any part of Japan. 

 It appears, however, that they were employed by the Ainos, 

 the primitive inhabitants of Japan, now driven into the inte- 

 rior. 



Mr. Louis Lartet records the discovery in Palestine of va- 

 rious traces of a prehistoric population, resembling in its hab- 

 its the reindeer-hunters who once dwelt in the caves and un- 

 der the rock-shelters of Dordogne. A station near Mount 

 Lebanon has furnished chipped knives and scrapers of flint 

 perfectly resembling those of the south of France. They 

 were associated with the broken and calcined bones of ani- 

 mals. Implements of the same character have occurred near 

 Bethlehem, together with large disk-shaped objects of flint 

 perfectly resembling certain paleolithic types of Europe. 

 Dolmens have been noticed in various parts of Palestine. 

 None of the traces just mentioned are ascribed to the Jews; 

 but it is considered as probable that the country was inhab- 

 ited, before the arrival of the Hebrews, by tribes who used 

 chipped-flint implements exclusively, and by others who were 

 in the habit of erecting, for purposes of sepulture, dolmens 

 analogous to those of France and Alcfiers. 



General Faidherbe read before the Anthropological Society 

 of Paris a paper on the raegalithic monuments of Africa. 

 Dolmens occur at Tunis, Constantine, Algiers, and Tangier; 

 but they are wanting all the distance between Algiers and 



