CHAPTER V 



SUBDIVISIONS AND CONDITIONS OF THE 

 PALANTHROPIC AGE 



WHILE all geologists and archaeologists are agreed 

 in the existence of the men contemporary with the 

 mammoth and reindeer in Europe, and in the fact of 

 two or even three races of men having existed in that 

 period, various opinions are entertained as to the 

 succession of events and the chronological classifi- 

 cation of the remains. Mortillet, whose arrangement 

 has been usually adopted in France, recognises a 

 period of chipped stone or palaeolithic period, corre- 

 sponding to the palanthropic age, and a period of 

 polished stone, corresponding to the neanthropic age. 

 Within the former he believes that it is possible to 

 separate different ages, 1 from the character of the 

 implements and other remains. The first two are 

 characterised by the presence of two elephants, the 

 mammoth and another species (E. antiquus\ the next 

 two by the mammoth associated with the cave bear 



1 Respectively the Achulienne, Chellienne, Mousterienne, Solou- 

 triennc, and Magdalenienne. 



