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THE PLEISTOCENE PERIOD 



to which stone from the quarries was carried. The stages of manu- 

 facture, as thus interpreted, are shown in Fig. 545. 



Because of this separation of the process of manufacture into 



Fig. 546. A group of figures of chipped-stone artefacs, one of which has been 

 regarded as a typical paleolithic implement, front and side view. The rest were 

 obtained, in three cases, from modern flint-shops of the region in which the supposed 

 paleolith was found, while the fourth was traceable directly to the same shops. 

 The discrimination between the paleolith and the rejects is left to the reader. 

 (Holmes.) 



two parts, (i) roughing out at the quarries, gravel-beds, etc., and 

 (2) shaping tools at dwelling sites or elsewhere, there arose a geo- 

 graphic separation of the products. The rude failures and rejects, 

 together with the extemporized hammer-stones, cores, flakings, and 



