1920.] I. H. N. Evans: Cave-dwellings in Pahang. 39 
sieveful of earth—I do not think that there can be any doubt 
that the people who lived in this cave understood the working 
of stone by flaking. The stone implements might, of course, 
have been either ancient objects picked up outside the caves 
and taken home by the Troglodytes, or have been obtained 
by barter from some other stab but I am inclined to think 
that they were made on the s 
The broken apres a Hy cutting end of a finely polished 
sharpening it—on a stone, not long before it was discarded. 
The second specimen, a small chisel-like implement, which also 
shows striae, is merely a water-worn stone of convenient shape, 
which has been ground above and below at one end so as to 
produce a cutting edge. The third implement '—also small 
and of chisel-like shape—is made from another water-worn 
stone. It, however, appears to have been much used, and 
exhibits no striae. Intype the second and third implements are 
very similar, but the second is much the thicker of the two. 
Besides these polished, or partly polished, implements 
we discovered several pieces of hard-grained stone which showed 
primary chipping. Three of these have a roughly pear-shaped 
form, and, had-they not been found in association with articles 
of polished stone, might almost have been taken for imple- 
ments of a palaeolithic type. They are roughly chipped on 
both faces, the chipping extending over almost the whole of 
them. A fourth appears to have been chipped only around 
the edges. A fifth is a water-worn pebble, also pear-shaped, 
which has been trimmed at its border only (on both faces). A 
sixth is a part of another pebble which has been dressed by 
taking off two large flakes, the result being that the piece 
remaining would seem not unsuitable for making into a fan- 
shaped axe-head. 
The flakes are mostly of fine-grained blackish stone. 
Some of them, small and sharp, may have been used as knives; 
others, which are rougher, were probably merely trimmings 
from large pebbles which were —) — for some put- 
— or other. Percussion bulbs well developed in 
many specimens, but the stone, dient probably the best 
material that the cave-dwellers could obtain, is not very suit- 
able for working by chipping, and could not be re age to 
give nearly such fine results as flint, obsidian, or 
us now see what further conclusions we “ey draw 
from the examination of these worked stones : 
The deposits in the cave, as I have remarked above, were 
of no great depth, and a layer of refuse with a maximum 
depth of four feet might not take many years to accumulate 
provided that the occupation of the site was continuous. 
1 Length 8-8 cms., maximum breadth 2°5 cms,, maximum depth 21 cms. 
