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BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
with no evidence against their being of the same age.—(Seton-Karr’s 
Collection.) 
The true Paleolithic form and patina is met with in the Abu Sharhein 
flint, which is of proved historic date, and in the rude “ paleo- 
liths” from the Knysna caves in South Africa, known to have 
been made by “ previous generations of existing natives.” 
In the plateaux and galleries of the Wady es Sheikh [and Wady Sojoor] 
the implements and the heaps of excavated material are lying on 
the bare surface of the desert as actually accumulated and left by the 
artificers ; and, as the photographs show besides, they could not have 
rested on humus; numerous runnels or dry rain courses also 
van be seen channeling the surface of the ground towards the Wady 
gorges.—(Photographs by Seton-Karr.) 

Hic. 5. Fic. 6. 
Fies. 5 AND 6.—IMPLEMENTS IN THE MAyER COLLECTION FROM THE WaApby SoJoor, 
CoLLectED By Mr. Sreton-Karr. 
Worked flints from the ‘upper part of the groups of objects from each ” 
of the tombs of the Menite kings were found at Abydos. These 
being dated, “are of great value in tracing the history of flint 
working in Egypt, and its transition from the prehistoric to historic 
times.” —(Petrie.) _ $ Nara s 
“Large worked flints of Paleolithic Age” were discovered also in the 
Menite tombs at Abydos (Petrie) ; “such as have not infrequently 
been found on high land adjoining the Valley of the Nile, but as to 
the age of which some question has arisen ”—(Hvans.) 
Flint implements of Paleolithic form, therefore, have been made from the 
Quaternary to our own times in various parts of the world. It is, therefore, 
impossible to use form to determine the age ; or to assign different periods to 
different forms when they occur together in the same workshops (as they do 
in the Es Sheikh and Sojoor mines). It is consequently misleading and 
unscientific to apply the term “implements of Paleolithic Age” to those of 
Paleolithic form, when neither remains nor strata co-exist by which the 
chronology can be fixed. The term proposed by M. Deniker, “ Paleolithic 
stage of civilisation,” in being accurate and scientific, is preferable. 
If Paleolithic man occupied the high plateau, his weapons and imple- 
ments must have been left on the humus of the forest, for when the diluvial 
period passed away (together with its fauna and forest), he must have 
