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difficulties by fresh discoveries which, may be 

 made any day. At any rate these, the earliest 

 certain remains of man known to us, reveal to 

 us man not differing in any important particular 

 from man as we now know him. If Professor 

 Keith is correct in his most recent statement as 

 to the Piltdown man and his cranial capacity was 

 really 1,500 cc., his skull is well up to the average 

 of the civilised races of to-day. 



The Chellean and Acheulean periods, during 

 the latter of which somewhat lighter and smaller 

 implements were made than during the former, 

 make up the Older Palaeolithic Age. It is suc- 

 ceeded by the Middle Palaeolithic, which is 

 usually regarded as being conterminous with the 

 Mousterian zone of civilisation.* The coup-de- 

 poing has now disappeared, and broad and thick 

 flakes worked on one side, with side-scrapers 

 and points for use in the hand, are the charac- 

 teristic implements.! Now, of Mousterian man 

 we know a great deal, and we know of him, it 

 may be said, in the mass or as a race, and not by 

 mere isolated fragments, as was the case with the 

 earlier examples. For of Mousterian man we 

 have now quite abundant remains, including that 

 once much-debated specimen, the Neanderthal 



* It is perhaps hardly necessary to say that the terminology of 

 these zones of civilisation is derived from the places, mostly 

 French, where the chief or most typical examples of the skeletal 

 remains, or in some instances, such as Chelles, the characteristic 

 implements have been found. 



f The reader will find an excellent and brief table of the zones 

 in question in Wright, W. B., p. 254, and as this is the first time 

 that this book has been quoted it may be permissible to commend 

 it to readers as a most admirable, complete, and up-to-date, 

 account of the subject with which it deals. 



