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and the Marquesa and Paumotu Islands in Polynesia suggests 

 that this practice belonged to the earlier of the two movements. 

 There is reason to believe that this movement had relatively 

 little influence in Malekula. 



Professor G. Elliot Smith, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., read a 

 paper entitled "The Arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe." 



At a time when little was known of early man and his works 

 beyond the stone implements which he fashioned, Sir John 

 Lubbock (afterwards Lord Avebury) suggested the use of the 

 terms Palaeolithic and Neolithic to distinguish respectively 

 between the earlier part of the Stone Age, when crudely 

 worked implements were made, and the later period, when 

 more carefully finished workmanship was shown. In spite of 

 the fact that subsequent investigation revealed a high degree of 

 skill in the craftsmanship of the Upper Palaeolithic period, 

 which in many respects shows a very much closer affinity to the 

 Neolithic than to the Lower Palaeolithic period, Lubbock's 

 terminology has become so firmly established that it has con- 

 tinued to determine the primary subdivision into epochs of the 

 early history of man. 



Recent research has brought to light a vast" amount of new 

 information relating to the achievements of Upper Palaeolithic 

 man, and has conclusively shown that human culture and artistic 

 expression had already attained the distinctive characters which 

 mark them as the efforts of men like ourselves. This view has 

 been amply confirmed by the general recognition of the fact 

 that, after the disappearance of Neanderthal man at the end of 

 the Monsterian period, the new race of men that supplanted 

 them in Europe and introduced the Aurignacian culture conform 

 in all essential respects to our own specific type — Homo sapiens. 



Thus the facts of physical structure, no less than the artistic 

 abilities and the craftsmanship, of the men of the Upper Palaeo- 

 lithic proclaim their affinity with ourselves. The earlier types 

 of mankind which invaded Europe and left their remains near 

 Piltdown, Heidelberg, and in the various Monsterian stations 



