PREHISTORIC REMAINS OF MAN 



enough to take us beyond the range of written 

 history or record, which barely reaches further 

 than four thousand years. 



Recent explorations in ancient cities, Egypt 

 and other parts of the East have brought out 

 from layer after layer of rubbish and mud the 

 different remains of man, different instru- 

 ments, utensils and works of art. As one 

 gets deeper one finds remains showing different 

 habits and ways of life. But all are practically 

 within the historic period. Beyond that we 

 come to a period of which there is no tradition 

 or written record, but of which we have evi- 

 dence only by the remains we find ; flint 

 instruments, carvings, and even occasionally 

 some human bones. The most important of 

 the prehistoric remains of man take us back, 

 to judge from the position in which they are 

 found, some 150,000 years. These are the 

 remains, found in river gravels in England and 

 France and other countries, proving that man 

 lived here in a savage state with the Mammoth, 

 the Rhinoceros, Hyena, Cave Lion and Cave 

 Bear. 



Fig. 58 shows two flint implements which these 

 men manufactured and used. A flint instru- 



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