Tin: OBIQ WD A.vnnrm \x 71 



implement*! and minn-ntH or works of art. Hut we 



IM-I- tliat the ' no archeo- 



logical remain-; ind --d, "They had no' tiiced l>e- 



yond the use of I uin-hipped stones. ... If no 



paleolitl. earli.-r than tin- lat<- piaternary 



imd. it does not follow that man did not 



\i-t until the late .pi. y. On it is 



certain that, if flints wnv then ehipped l.y in.-n. .-arlier 

 ad livrd, \\ li< ha<l n>t tlmuuht of ehippin.t; flints." * 

 Tin* implement- t'min a valuahh- part of mir rvidenoe 

 DM they ar most nnmTus and u . and 



under eonditionx \sliieh alTord the hest proof of 

 anti.juity. When \\.- find rhii f n- imple- 



ment *li the .Irit't anil undi-turhe.l hnuhh-r 



clay wliieh .ut of tlie valley wall 



and piled up hundreds and thousand- of years ag<>. 



: the a.ire of the ijlaeial depo-it as a measure 

 IgC of the |j iplemeiit.-. Or, if an excava- 



tion in the floor of son .-rs humanly 



fashioned stone tool- under a thick -talairmite formation. 

 we can onl\ i th<- niidi-turl>ed position of the im- 



plements as an indication age. Many primi- 



peoples to-day live upon shell-ti-h and leave the dis- 

 d shells near their dwellings. A goes on the 



pi!.- of -h.-ll- a-eumulatea. We call swh heaps of sin-Ms, 

 "Ki! [iddent. 91 If now, \v find under such 



kitelien midd.-n- amonir the -heIN, rude nnpoli-hod spear 

 implements must ! at least as old a- 

 i. In i i/.aheth Island), 



re kitchen-middem ujK>n old .ii-ed t<> 



i-ht- al.ove the present sea-lovel, so an- 

 that th( shells of whieh they are composed are ex- 



sGiddinir. -'II. 



