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III the Paluiolithic period there were no (loiiiestic auiinals. In the 

 Neolithic period they were abundant. 



In the F^aheolithic period, the i)(>piUation was nomadic; they were 

 hunters and fishers, but not agriculturists. In the Neolithic period 

 the population was sedentary, and agricultur<^ was well developed. 



In the Pahcolithic period tluMC was i»ractically no pottery in France 

 and England; in Belgium there have been two localities where pottery 

 has been found. 



In the Palicolithic period there were no monuments of burials, and 

 a]»])arently no respect for the dea<l. In the Neolithic i)eriod there were 

 many and great monuments, dolmens, and menhirs of great size, with 

 elaborate burials. 



There is in the Paheolithic period nothing to show tiiat man had any 

 idea of religion or a future state; in the Neolithic [)eriod these senti- 

 ments and ideas were well develo]>ed. 



In the Paheolithic i)eriod man has an artistic sentiment; in the Neo- 

 lithic period he apparently had none. 



So it appears that the revolution and contrast between the two peri- 

 ods is at once physical ami industrial, natural and social. The changes 

 in climate suggest clumges of equal importance in orography and geo- 

 graphy which must have been accomi)anied by profound geologic modi- 

 lication. All these changes in man's civilization, his surroundings and 

 environnuMits, took place between the Paheolithic and the Neolithic 

 periods, and this in addition to the nmrked change in his industry from 

 chipped to polished stone. Thus it will be seen that the latter difter- 

 ence is but slight, ami only one (»ul of a dozen, which equalled if it did 

 not exceed it in importance and ctt'ect. 



Sir J<»lin Kvans, in "Ancient Stone inq)lements of (Ireat Britain," 

 l)age 018, says : 



"The antiquity then that must Ix' assigned to tiie implements in the 

 highest beds of river drift may be represented (1) by the i)eriod requis- 

 ite for the excavation of the valleys to their i)resent depth; plus (2) 

 the ])eriod necessary for the dying out and immigration of a large part 

 of the quarternary or |)ost glacial fauna, and the coming on of the pre- 

 historic; i»lus (.">) the i)ohshed stone |)eriod; plus (I) the bronze, iron, 

 and historic periods, which three latter in this country occupy a space 

 of i)rol)ably not less than three thousand years. A single c(|nation in- 

 volving so many unknown (pmntities is, as already observed, not sus- 

 ce})tible of solution.'' 



I resuuu' the discussion of the existence of the I'iila'olithic age in 

 the United States. Theie have been found in the Trenton gravels, 

 numbers of rndely chii)i)ed iiiq)lements of aigillite which have been 

 called Paheolithic. Tln^y were originally discovered by Di'. Al)bott, 

 who lesided at Trenton and who has been interested in pic-historic arch- 

 a'ology, and was emi)loye<l by the Peabody .Museum, and who tor many 

 years has been devoted to the jiursuit of evidence of early man in the 

 Delaware \'alley. He is now curator of the muse'nm of ar<dueology iu 

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