THE OLD STONE AGE 
which the famous skull came to light, there was also dis- 
covered a strange implement (see Fig. 24), made of a great 
slab of bone, sixteen inches long, taken from the leg of an 
extinct elephant. This had been shaved down to an irregu- 
lar point at one end and also had a hole 
bored through it. Men who could do all 
this with bone must have been familiar 
with the idea of working in wood. 
THE CHELLEAN FE Pocu 
Directly out of the Pre-Chellean arose 
the true Chellean. This advance also 
seems to have taken place mainly in 
Africa, whence it spread both into Europe 
and; into “Asia. \The climate continued!» Fic. 38.) Pre-Chel- 
genial, as indeed it seems to have been _ ean type of stone 
during all three earlier cultural periods. St. Acheul, north. 
Hence Chellean man, like his predecessors, radi e toon Ub tp 
lived in the open. Vegetation flourished, incomplete "ehba: 
and animal life continued with but few Ping After Com 
changes of species, though the lion had pan 
now largely if not entirely replaced the saber-toothed tiger 
and one form of rhinoceros seems to have died out. Fire 
was probably known, but there is little reason to suppose 
that Chellean man, any more than his forerunners, erected 
shelters or wore any sort of clothing. In fact even the 
Fic. 39. Tasmanian stone implements, typical of the lower Old Stone Age. 
Tasmanian culture was by far the most primitive that has survived down to 
recent times. After Ling Roth 
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