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ture tools or lay them aside for the future." The Makapansgat aus- 

 tralopithecines differed from the chimpanzee in bringing to their 

 caverns the material for their tools, in preserving them, and in laying 

 them aside for the future ; in brief, they had developed an osteodonto- 

 keratic culture. 



The Australopithecinae may not have talked about their works, their 

 tools, and the actions performed with their aid ; nor am I aware of any 

 evidence that articulate speech, as we term it, was employed by any 

 human type preceding Homo sapiens (see Paget, op. cit.) . There can, 

 however, be little doubt that these australopithecine makers of osteo- 

 dontokeratic tools, these followers of antelope-hunting techniques, 

 these dissectors of animal bodies had a correspondingly adequate num- 

 ber of distinctive gestures and signals, manual, implemental, and 

 doubtless vocal, for communicating their intentions while assembling 

 tools for, and employing those tools in, their hunting, and for designat- 

 ing their wishes in respect to those tools when dividing the spoils of 

 the chase. In so doing they were laying the foundations upon which 

 was erected tlie superstructure of articulate speech. 



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