Manchester Memoirs, Vol. liii. ( 1 909), No. 8. 



VIII. The Dawn of Human Intention. An Experimental 

 and Comparative Study of Eoliths. 



By Prof. Alfred Schwartz, Manchester, 



AND 



Sir Hugh R. Beevor, Bart, M.D., London. 



{Read December ist, igoS. Received for publication December rStk, igoS.) 



I. Introductory. 



(i) In 1892, in a paper read before the Anthropo- 

 logical Institute, Harrison, Prestwich, and de Barri 

 Crawshay, brought to the notice of the scientific world 

 the Eoliths of the Kent Plateau. The views that they 

 advanced have given rise to a great deal of controversy, 

 and even after the lapse of 16 years the treatment of the 

 question appears to be very largely a matter of individual 

 opinion. At the present time there are a large number 

 of persons who believe that Eoliths are the work of man, 

 while an even larger number are convinced that they are 

 the work of Nature. We hope to shew that the existence 

 of Eoliths as the work of man is a fact which is capable 

 of scientific demonstration. 



(2) It will readily be admitted that the work under- 

 taken by man in the earlier stages of his existence would 

 be simpler and more general in character than in sub- 

 sequent periods when specialised operations would be 

 introduced as his culture advanced and his needs 

 increased. 



C3) This is actually the case, and we find the tools of 

 the earliest man confined to the simplest types with which 



February jrd, igog. 



