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independent series of special forms of arrow-heads, borers, 
scrapers, and other tools, which suggest the furniture of 
a doll’s house. The profusion in which these little 
implements occur is also held to be an indication that they 
are the work of a separate race. It does not seem likely 
that the Neolithic man, accustomed to the use of full- 
sized tools, whether chipped or polished, would sit down 
and manufacture as an extra these tiny implements to such 
an extent that hundreds are found on the floor of a 
single hut. 
These arguments, although obviously not without force, 
have failed to convince either Sir John Evans or Mr C. H. 
Read. The former authority observes (4oc. cz¢.) that 
“curiously enough, identical forms have been found in 
some abundance on the Vindhyan Hills and [in] the 
Banda District, India, at Helouan (Helwan,) Egypt, and in 
the district of the Meuse, Belgium. Such an identity of 
form at places geographically so remote does not imply 
any actual communication between those who made the 
tools, but merely shows that some of the requirements of 
daily life, and the means at command for fulfilling them 
being the same, tools of the same character have been 
developed, irrespective of time and space.” 
In the same sense, Mr C. H. Read remarks that “the 
curious persistence of the same forms in all these coun- 
. tries [India, Egypt, England, Belgium, etc.] has led to the 
conjecture that they are the work of one and the same 
race ; but the same argument might be used to prove that 
the barbed stone arrow-heads of Europe, Japan, and North 
America were the productions of a single people. How- 
ever it may be explained, the similarity of form is suff- 
ciently striking to deserve careful attention.”" 
It is needless to dwell on the difficulties of Mr Gatty’s 
1 Guide lo the Antiquities of the Stone Age in the British Museum, 1902, p. 
110. Mr Read gives illustrations of seven Scunthorpe “ pygmies,” 
