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first sight. In the Dordogne caves, for example, some 

 supposed to be older than the others show roughly- 

 made implements along with bones of extinct animals; 

 but there are associated with them others, both of 

 stone and bone, which could be referred to the Neo- 

 lithic age; and the same is the case with the Aurignac 

 cave, if of the great age originally attributed to it. 

 Even Kent's Cavern, in England, has produced highly 

 artificial bone implements from the bed of clay holding 

 remains of extinct mammalia, and no reason can be 

 shown why men capable of carving bone and ivory 

 could not have polished stone. If they did not do so, 

 it may have been merely because the plentiful supply 

 of flints in their vicinity rendered it unnecessary. 

 Further, our American investigations show us that 

 people who used the best stone implements used also 

 the rudest, and even naturally- shaped stones, for some 

 purposes ; so that out of any American village site we 

 could pick out a collection of Palaeolithic and of Neo- 

 lithic implements. Besides this, in any place where 

 the raw material abounded and where stone imple- 

 ments were made, we should necessarily find a very 

 large preponderance of the ruder types. Again, a 

 people living where the material was plentiful and 

 easily chipped, would probably be in the habit of 

 making rude implements and throwing them away 

 carelessly, as they could be so easily replaced by 

 others. After carefully going over the several de- 

 posits of remains ascribed to the Palaeolithic time, as 

 summed up by Lyell and Lubbock, I think we must 



