PREHISTORIC ART. 



365 



Fig. 6. 



PALEOLITHIC CHELLEEN IMPLEMENT OP CHIPPED 



tJUARTZITE. 



I5ois Du Roclier, near Dinan, Brittany, France. 



Micault and Fornier. Cat. No. 99541, U.S.N. M. ^ natural size. 



sive workshop for the manufacture of Paleolithic implement.s was 

 fouud on or near the surface at Bois du Ivocher not far from Dinan, 

 France, by MM. .Micault and 

 Fornier, of Eennes. The ma- 

 terial was quartzite,and chips, 

 Hakes, hammer stones, and un- 

 finished implements, with the 

 usual d('bris, were found, and 

 along with them a number of 

 finished implements, of which 

 fig. C (Oat. ^o. 99541, U.S.N. 

 M.) represents one. It has the 

 same peculiarity of relativ^e 

 thickness as other Paleolithic 

 implements, but is more disk- 

 shaped than any heretofore 

 shown. 



Implements corresponding 

 to those of the Chelleen epoch 

 are found practically over the world. This would indicate the expan- 

 sion of that civilization and the duration of the epoch to have been 

 much greater than has been su^jposed. Those from Great Britain are 



found only in the eastern 

 and southern portion from 

 Norfolk around to Devon- 

 shire and Lands End. 

 They have been found in 

 every quarter of France 

 and southern Belgium, in 

 all parts of Italy, and in 

 Spain and Portugal (fig. 7). 

 They have not been found 

 in northern England, Scot- 

 land, Wales, nor northern 

 Ireland; neither in north- 

 ern Belgium, nor Holland, 

 nor in the Scandinavian 

 countries, nor that portion 

 of Germany bordering on 

 the Baltic, nor in northern 

 Russia. These countries 

 may have been covered 

 with glaciers at that epoch, 

 or possibly by the great 

 North Sea. Paleolithic implements have been fouud in Asia, in Pales- 

 tine, in India from Bombay to Calcutta (fig. 8, Cat. No. 8S190, U.S.N.M.), 



PALEOLITHIC CHELLEEN IMPLEMENT OF CHIPPED (^UARTZITK 



Leiria, near Lisbon, Tortugal. 



Cattailhac, Spain anil Portugal, p. 30, fi(pi. 23 and 24. k naturalsize. 



