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IMBEDDING OF THE REMAINS OF MAN. [Ch. XLVII. 



Ham 



marked 



many 



species of quadrupeds ; 



from 



temperature, 



im 



of noithern 



animals 



jf pottery 



marine 



Marmora 



described by Count Albert de la 



Cagliari, on the southern coast of the island of Sardinia, at 



more 



the height of 



Mediterranean. In this deposit 



some 



the level of the 



ments of 



pottery were found together with a flattened ball of baked 

 earthenware, with a hole through the axis, supposed to have 

 been used for weighting fishing-nets. These works of art 



shells all of living species, the 



marine 



mussels 



I 



bottom 



human 



level ; but in countries like Sardinia, where the latest vol- 



came cones are 



Newer 



such an upheaval may not imj 

 may belong: to Neolithic times.t 



^ See 'Antiquity of Man' p. 177. 



t In my * Antiquity of Man' (p. 177) 

 I inferred that these upraised marine 

 strata containing pottery were as old as 

 certain bone-breccias near Caghari, in 

 which the remains of two species of ex- 

 tinct mammaha have been found ; but 



Sardinia, I think it most probable that 

 the bone-breccias in question may be 

 older than the marine strata in which 

 the works of art are imbedded. This 

 question has now acquired increased im- 

 portance since it has been determined 

 that hitherto no pottery (see above, 



on reconsidering De la Marmora's ac- p. 560) has been detected in Palaeolithic 

 count of the geology of that part of deposits in the North of Europe. 



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