160 The Pygmy Flint Age in Lincolnshire. 
weak race who were overcome by Neolithic Man, this may be true 
but we have the authority of Herodotus 2,000 years ago, and 
modern travellers like Dr. Wollaston of 1907, pointing out that 
the Pygmies were, and are at the present time, rather a fighting 
race of people. After considering all the evidence obtainable, I 
am inclined to think that the Pygmy Race must be placed in the 
Messeolithic or Middle Stone Age. 
It is true that at one period, “There were giants on the earth 
in those days,” so also it is true that there were dwaris on the 
earth in other days. Was this race the Iberic Race? 
It 1s ably argued by Mr. W. J. Knowles vice-president of the 
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, that Neolithic Man is the 
descendant of Paleolithic Man. 
The question before Ethnologists to-day is; How was this 
transition effected? Was it through a Messeolithic Age ? 
Because there are no references to the Pygmy Flint Age in 
the Standard Books of 30 years ago on Pre-Historic Man, such as 
Boyd Dawkins, Canon Greenwell, Sir John Evans, and Mr. 
Mortimer of Driffield, some few people are prepared to question 
the reality of what are called Pygmy Flints. 
To begin with, each of these authors referred to, have within 
the last few years become thorough believers in Pygmy Flints as 
the product of mankind. This is shown by their speeches at 
the recent meetings of the British Association at York and else- 
where. — 
Then let the doubtful person concerning Pygmy Flints turn 
to recent works on Pre-Historic Man, such as Mr. Charles H. Read’s 
Handbook or Guide to the Stone Age, in the British Museum, 
published 1go2, to Prof. Windle’s Book on Remains of Pre- Historic 
Age in England, published 1904, to the Articles by Vincent A. 
Smith, late of India Civil Service, to Dr. Gatty, and other works, 
he will then I think, if open to conviction, be ready to admit there 
is more evidence fora Pygmy Race than he anticipated. 
HistorIcAL REFERENCE TO PyGmMy Races oF MANKIND. 
If we go back to the Ancients, we have the authority 
of Herodotus, Book II., Chapter 33, Page 51. That “ The 
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