4 THE EVOLUTION OF MAN 



been synchronized very accurately with the successive advances 

 and retreats of the ice in the Pleistocene glacial epoch, as well 

 as with the recorded changes in the faunae of these several 

 stages. Hence the European cultural chronology has become 

 the standard for the world, and as it is further possible to 

 synchronize the periods of glaciation in the Old World and in 

 the New, a comparative chronology for the latter may some 

 day be established. 



The appended table is based upon the highest authority, 

 the American Osborn and the Belgian Rutot. Osborn feels 

 convinced that Pliocene man is established by the Cromer 

 flints (see page 36), which he says are not Eolithic but Paleo- 



CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 



