lO SUTCLIKFK, Tendencies in Prehistoric AntJiropology. 



works at Mantes, characteristic Kent Plateau types being- 

 amon^Tst the products. 



Mr. Hazzledine Warren slioweci that carts, passinc^ 

 over a road mended by flints, produce Kent Plateau 

 Eoliths of t}'pical form in considerable numbers. 



Finally, to remove the last trace of doubt, if any 

 should still remain, M. L'Abbe Breuil found the flakes 

 removed from his Thanetian implements still so closely 

 associated with the blocks from which the)' came as to 

 show clearly the exact way in which they were formed 

 by the mutual pressure of the stones in the thin layer in 

 which they occurred in the deposits. This recent obser- 

 vation seems to entirely destroy the evidential value of 

 Eoliths as bearing on the occurrence of man in early 

 rocks, although it docs not follow that some Eoliths may 

 not actually be of human manufacture and use ; in a 

 sense, the boulder that one uses to drive in a lent peg is 

 an Eolithic tool, although it will not generally show any 

 marks of use. 



The chipped flints found by Mr. Reid Moir in the 

 stone bed at the bottom of the Red Crag are deserving of 

 clo.se attention and careful treatment. The evidence of 

 their provenance is convincing, and such proof as they 

 present of human workmanship has been very ably put 

 forward by a Committee of the P-ast Anglian Prehistoric 

 Society as well as by Sir E. Ray Lankester. It is 

 eminently desirable that some competent authorit}', with 

 local knowledge and a mind of sceptical texture, should 

 marshal all the testimony which can be brought together 

 against their human manufacture. 



All that is attempted in this [)aper is to indicate some 

 of the lines on which such an examination might proceed. 

 It must at the outset be clearly realised that the Red 

 Crag may be only so slightly older than the deposits in 



