PROGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN ISiK). 



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a careful study of the debris leads the iuvestigator to the conclusion 

 that the forms occurring here are not implements at all, but failures, 

 which the savage artisan has thrown away. Mr. Holmes has been 

 enabled to demonstrate this by learning the stone cliipiJer's art and 

 actually repeating the steps in his processes. The value of this careful 

 exploration lies in the assistance which it will lend to other archaeologists 

 who visit to review their own work with new light. 



Arcbseologists will be pleased to learn that the Hon. Henry Shirley 

 found in Pedro Bluff Cave, Jamaica, a cranium belonging to one of 

 the aborigines who inhabited the island before the European conquest. 

 It had been artificially deformed during infancy by the depression of 

 the frontal region, or fron to-occipital compression with «orresponding 

 lateral expansion. The island of Jamaica has yielded a remarkably 

 small number of evidences of aboriginal occupation. 



Dr. Brintou prepared for his "Races and Peoples" a scheme of 

 geologic time during the age of man in the eastern hemisphere, which 

 is here re-produced. 



Scheme of fieologic time during the age of man in ihe eastern hemisphere. 



( Eui-ope connected with Africa. 



( 1. Preglacial 



Quaternary 

 Diluvi a I, 

 or Pleis- 

 t o c e u e 

 Epoch. 



I Temperature mild. 

 African elephant in Englatid. 

 Tropical animals abundant. 



<2. Glacial -^ 



(•Europe aerered from Africa. 



Temperature low. 

 j Reindeer in France. 

 I Arctic animals abundant. 



3. Postglacial . 



( 1. Preliistoric 



( Continents a.-^sume present forms. 



■( Temperature rising. 



[ Temperate zones established. 



( lieographic conditions undisturbed. 

 ) Wild animals not diminished. 



Man homogeneous. Indiis- 

 trj- paleolithic, with sim- 

 ple implements. Migra- 

 tions extensive. Lan- 

 guage rudimentary. 



Man dividing into laces. 

 Industry paleolithic with 

 comjiound implements. 

 Cave dwellings. Migra- 

 tions limited; races in 

 fixed areas. 



Kaces completely estab- 

 lished. Industry ueo 

 litbic. Beginning of sed- 

 entary life. Languages 

 developed iu classes. 



Kaces dev 3lop into contact. 

 Industry of stone and 

 copper. 



Present or 

 Alluvial<J2. Proto ■ historic . 

 Epoch. 



1 ;i. Historic 



Conditions altered by agriculture. \ ^^''"'•'^ migrations begin. 

 Wild animals .slain or tamed. ) '"'lu.st.y of bronze and 



[ iron. 



Geographic conditions greatly mod- f Extensive mingling of 

 ilied by man. j races. Development of 



All lower animals subjugated. I nations. 



— Brintou, D. G., Races aud peoples. N«3\v York, 1H90, p. 9(1. 



The eighth Kussian Archaeological Congress was iield in Moscow, 

 January 8 to 24. It was the twenty-fifth anniversary of founding the 

 Royal Archaeological Society in Moscow, February 7, 18G4. The 



