THE MOST ANCIENT REMAINS OF MAN 
“eoliths,” which may likewise have been washed out from 
an older formation; and rare flints with “obvious signs of 
human workmanship,” representing a very old type of 
Paleolithic implements. There was also found a large 
crude tool made of the 
femur of an extinct ele- 
phant—by far the earli- 
est bone implement thus 
far known (Fig. 24). 
The discoverers, as well 
as English anthropolo- 
gists in general, regard 
the first group of finds as 
those of a single indi- | 
vidual and all of them [fj i ie 
together as belonging to [ff le Ne 
one very early form of [AMM Sh 
man, the Eoanthropus, or 
“dawn man.” 
Taking all the circum- 
stances of the find into 
consideration, Sir A. 
Smith Woodward, of the 
British Museum, who had 
been associated with the 
discovery almost from 
the very first, decided 
that the skull and mandi- 
ble could not safely be 
“described as being of 
Fic. 24. 
Bone implement from Piltdown, 
England, made from the thigh bone of an 
elephant. A is the inner surface; B, the 
rounded outer surface; and C, the edpe: 4, 
an accidentally broken hollow; c, a natural 
break due to pressure in the gravel; p, the 
inner wall of a perforation from which the 
outer wall has been broken away; and x, 
the beginning of another perforation never 
completed. After Smith Woodward 
earlier date than the first 
half of the Pleistocene Epoch. The individual probably 
lived during a warm cycle in that age.” In 1922, in his 
Guide to the Fossil Remains of Man, the same authority 
states: “‘So far as can be judged from present evidence, it is 
therefore reasonable to suppose that Piltdown man dares 
back to the beginning of the Pleistocene period.” It is 
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