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The remarkable pigmy implements which I am about to 
describe have not such a world-wide distribution. With possibly 
one exception they have not been found associated with human 
remains or with the ordinary large stone tools of prehistoric man. 
Again, no modern savage uses anything like them, so we are left 
to conjecture the purposes for which they were made. 
Having said this much, let us have a look at a comparative 
series of the pigmies, I repeat they are not found the world 
over. So far, they have only been recorded from the Vindhya 
Hills, India, and a few places in Palestine, Egypt, North Africa, 
Spain, France, and Belgium. In England also their localities 
are not numerous, the principal being in East Lancashire, 
Lincolnshire, and Sussex. Though the spots where they are 
found are few, it is encouraging to note that, wherever discovered, 
they exist in large numbers. 
Of the specimens before us, the first thing I have to draw 
attention to is their size. The smallest in the top row is 
yin. long, the largest, in the bottom row, does not exceed 7% of 
an inch. All are made from artificial flakes and each specimen 
has one of its edges covered-with secondary chipping, thus 
showing they were intended. for some special purpose. The first 
row is from Scunthorpe in‘ Lincolnshire, the middle Indian, and 
the bottom from Lakenheath in Suffolk. The remarkable point 
about them is that the implements from various places are so 
much alike in shape and size that, if a representative series were 
placed in a box and shaken up, it would be an impossible task to 
reclassify them according to locality. 
The Indian varieties were found in the caves and rock 
shelters among the Vindhya Hills in places difficult of access and 
unknown to the. ordinary traveller. Some were found in the 
alluvium at the mouth of the caves, where they had been washed 
out and were caught in the ledges of the rock. Within the caves 
they were found in the uppermost strata, while, immediately 
beneath, but separated from them, were larger implements, 
different in size, kind and style. Crescent-shaped pigmy imple- 
ments were found in the grave mounds of the neighbourhood of 
the caves, leading one to suppose that the inhabitants of the 
caves, who made these implements, built the mounds and here 
buried their dead.* 
This shows us a typical series of the Vindhya Hills “ find.” 
In 1, 2, 3 rows are the various forms of the pigmy tools, in 4 the 
long symmetrical simple flakes, in 5 the rough flakes. Rows 
4 and 5 are examples of the waste flakes struck off in obtaining 
forms suitable for conversion into pigmies, and in row 6 are the 
cores from which the chips were made. The latter are extremely 
small, and the next slide shows us six of these which are in the 
Brighton Museum. 

* Smithsonian Report, 1892, p. 456. 
