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Bevieics — Giiide to Antiquities of the Stone Age. 



sense that they pick up and use such convenient fragments as 

 they may chance to find, usually employing shell, bamboo, or 

 wood to provide for their simple needs. There are therefore still 

 in existence peoples to whom, from climatic and other reasons, 

 stone implements are of only secondary importance ; and though 



Fig. 10.— Flint javelin- - 

 head, long barrow, 

 Wilts. (Fig. 138, 

 13. 114 of Guide.) 



Fig. 9. — TJnground axe-head, 

 Hitcham, Bucks. (Fig. 121, 

 p. 106 of Guide.) | nat. size. 



Fig. 8. — Flint knife, Denmark. 

 (Fig. 115, p. 103 of Guide.) i nat. size. 



their civilization is low, it must be higher than that of the earliest 

 representatives of the human race. Yet supposing the negrito 

 tribes had died out before their countries had been discovered by 

 Europeans, the extremely rough character of their stone tools would 

 probably have led anthropologists to reject them as of human 



