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merits must be dismissed. They are not the precursors of the highly- 

 finished or rougher South African types, and are neither the initial 

 nor the secondary stage of the South African palasolithic forms. 



Pal.eoliths op Large Size other than Scraper-knives. 



But if we reject, for the reasons already given, the evidence of the 

 Pretoria implements as eolithic, we are faced with forms of a type 

 and technique so truly palaeolithic, and especially lower palaeolithic,, 

 that doubt as to the identity of shape is no longer possible." Their 

 resemblance to the quartzite implements found in Europe, Algeria,. 

 Congo, India, is indeed extreme, and the process of manufacture 

 appears to have been the same. 



The late E. T. Hamy was quite justified in stating of a quartzite 

 cleaving, or hand-wedge boucher found at Koffyfontein, in Orangia, 

 that, if not made aware of its source, a French or Spanish ethno- 

 grapher would be justified in pronouncing it to have been found in 

 one of the palaeolithic " stations " of the Haute -Garonne, in France,, 

 or in the neighbourhood of Madrid.! 



So alike, indeed, to the bouchers of the neighbourhood of 

 Toulouse, as figured and described by J. B. Moulet, f are the 

 bouchers of the Stellenbosch-type, that the reproduction of Moulet's 

 own plates could have served for a great part of the illustrations 

 given in this paper. 



It is not only to the quartzite implements of France or Spain that 

 the verisimilitude of the South African bouchers is restricted. As 

 far back as 1868 .R. Bruce Foot called attention § to implements 

 met with in the laterite of Madras. Such artefacts have been 

 found in the Narbadda Valley in Hindustan || and other localities. 



We have in the Museum specimens from Codapah, in the Madras 

 Presidency, resembling so much in material and workmanship the 

 South African examples as to be verily indistinguishable. The same 

 may be said of some of the Congo quartzite implements H ; of those 



* I cannot refrain from quoting here a phrase in a letter I received from M. 

 Cartailhac, the veteran of French Antiquarians : " Mais leur aspect suffit pour les 

 faire reconnaitre, aussi bien que si c'etaient des medailles de Cesar ou de 

 Victoria." 



t Hamy, Bullet. Mus. d'Hist. Natur., 1899, No. 6. 



\ "Etude sur les cailloux tailles par percussion du pays toulousain," Archiv. 

 Mus. Hist. Nat. Toulouse, pt. 2, 1880. 



§ " On Quartzite Implements of Palaeolithic Type from the East Coast of 

 Southern India," Intern. Congr. Anthi-opol., Norwich, 1868, p. 249. 



!| Sollas, " Palaeolithic Races," Science Progress, pt. 2, 1909. 



If Cf. X. Stainier, " L'Age de pierre au Congo," Ann. Mus. d. Congo, i., pt. 1, 

 1899. V. Jacques, "Instruments de pierre du Congo," Mem. Soc. Anthrop^ 

 Bruxelles, xix., 1901. 



