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and polished Neolithic axes. But in general, the ordinary 
Neolithic implements seem to occupy stations distinct 
from those of the “ pygmies.” 
‘* Cette industrie,” M. de Pierpoint observes, ‘‘bien que datant de 
Page actuelle ne peut se confondre avec celle de Page de la pierre 
polie. C’est Poeuvre dune peuplade se distinguant absolument de 
celle qui créa la civilization dite rohenhausienne [scil. Swiss Lake 
dwellings]... . Ce n’est pas un peuple conquérant, mais une race 
refoulée, qui tend a s’¢teindre.” 
These observations of the Belgian scholar to some 
extent support Messrs J. A. Brown and R. A. Gatty in 
their belief that the ‘ pygmies” are the work of a special 
race that emigrated from the East and made its way as 
far as Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. The latter gentleman 
is convinced that the Indian and Scunthorpe “ pygmies” 
agree so exactly that the agreement can be explained only 
by the assumption that a “ migration took place in the 
Stone Age.” He argues that we “have to consider that 
four types are repeated, and, allowing for accidental 
similarity, it is hard to credit that four different imple- 
ments should occur in both places [England and India] 
exactly alike.” If we make the ordinary assumption 
that the people in India and England unconsciously 
adopted the same forms because they were living in- 
similar conditions, with similar needs, and the same 
material for supplying them, it is reasonable to point out 
that the conditions of a Lincolnshire plain differ widely 
from those of the Vindhyan hills. Moreover, the manu- 
facture of “‘ pygmies” is by no means co-extensive with the 
Neolithic civilization. It is, on the contrary, strictly 
localized, and the “pygmy” stations are often quite 
unconnected with, or, if near to, are quite distinct from 
Neolithic stations of the ordinary kind. The “ pygmies” 
are not merely small examples of the common-place 
Neolithic stock-in-trade. At Scunthorpe and other places 
where their peculiarities are plainly marked, they form an 
