EARLY MAN 



longitudinally, and one end removed in a slanting direction. With the exception of this flint 

 nodule, which may have been a hammer-stone, and a few fragments of slate, all the stone contents 

 of the cave were immediately local. The cave yielded a few gnawed bones, a little coprolite, and 

 the lower jaw of a very young hyaena with its first set of teeth incomplete. It is possible that the 

 cave, remote as it was in recesses of the rock, was resorted to by human beings at one period, and 

 by hyaenas at another, before it was partially filled, but the slight evidence of human occupation is 

 obscured by the theory of the sudden rush of water into the cave carrying with it the sweepings of 



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other caverns which may have communicated with the surface. Avoiding all speculation, one feet 

 stands out clear and distinct, and that is, that human beings and hyaenas lived in the flesh at one and 

 the same time in the neighbourhood of Cattedown. This alone invests the human remains with an 

 extraordinary amount of interest, for their discovery presents an opportunity of actually studying the 

 physical characteristics of men who were certainly contemporary with these long-extinct animals, 

 and probably also (with) the rhinoceros and cave-lion. The human bones represent the remains of some 

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