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CHAPTER II. 



Divisions of the Pal.eoivIthic Series. Eoliths. Pal.eoliths- 

 OF Large Size other than Scrapek-knives. The different 

 Types of South African Palaeolithic Implements. 



In order to compare our South African series and make them 



synchronise with those met with elsewhere, it may not be out of 



place — in fact, it is necessary — to give here, but on broad lines, 



he generally accepted divisions of the Pleistocene, or ancient 



Quaternary. 



Whether they are justified or not for the South African implements, 

 the general terms will prove useful ; but whether these divisions as 

 now accepted will prove provisional, in view of the later discoveries 

 of human remains, is a question of the future. 



These divisions, beginning from the lowest, are : — 



Strepyan 



Chellean 



Acheulean 



Mousterian 



Solutrian 



Magdalenian 



Azilian 



Another arrangement rejects the Strepyan and accepts the — 



Chellean 



Acheulean 



Mousterian 



Aurignacian 



Solutrian 



Magdalenian 



Azilian 



