164 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. vi. 



Amiens and Abbeville, in the second quarter of the 

 present century, prove that man lived in northern 

 France surrounded by the same group of animals as in 

 Britain. The identity in form of the implements, as 

 pointed out by Mr. Evans and Mr. Flower, leaves no 

 room for doubting that his culture also was of the same 

 low order in Britain and in northern France. The dis- 

 coveries of similar implements during the last twenty 

 years have extended his range as far south as the 

 deposits of the valley of the Garonne near Toulouse. 

 We may therefore picture him as following the animals 

 in their migrations, now retiring as far south as the 

 Pyrenees, and now pushing as far north as the latitude 

 of Peterborough. He must have found game in great 

 abundance in the well-watered lowlands and round the 

 numerous lakes, now covered by the North Sea and the 

 English and Irish Channels. 



The hunter has also left traces of his presence in 

 Spain, in "a wedge-shaped implement unlike the ordinary 

 European types, but similar to one of the Madras forms " 

 (Evans), in the gravels of the Manzanares near Madrid, 

 along with remains ascribed by Professor Lartet to the 

 African elephant. In Italy an ovate implement of the 

 ordinary form has been discovered near Gabbiano in the 

 Abruzzo ; and in Greece similar implements are said to 

 have been obtained from beds of sand near Megalopolis, 

 with bones of the great pachyderms. 1 



1 See Evans, op. cit. p. 571 ; Revue ArchJol. xv. 18. The tooth, of 

 the pigmy hippopotamus obtained by Dr. Rolleston, and said to have 

 been found in a Greek tomb at Megalopolis, may have been collected from 

 this spot, in which case that animal was a contemporary of man in that 

 region. 



