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caves of Spy in Belgium (under Mousterian), Trou Magrite Belgium ' 
(with Mammoth and Rhinoceros), Nabrigas, France (with cave Bear), 
and Engis Belgium (with Rhinoceros). 
(3) Paleolithic cave men bored and carved bone, and used pitted stone 
hammers at Les Eyzies, La Madeleine, Gorge D’Enfer and Laugerie 
Basse and therefore should have been able to polish stone. 
(4) The absence of Drift specimens in Neolithic graves means that 
Drift “implements” in Europe are like American quarry “ Turtle- 
backs” not implements at all and so not placed by the Neolithic men 
who made them, with their dead. 
(5) Polished stone implements through made by Drift Men are 
absent from the Drift because the Drift beds were like American 
quarries where the stone chipper left no village relics. 
(6) The Drift Mans’ pottery is not in the Drift because even if lost 
there gravel washing would destroy it. 
We follow these arguments with great interest but think (1) that 
while Indian blade making of the Quarry time was a complex difficult 
art, chip knife or “ Teshoa” making at one blow, or “ Turtle-back ” 
making at 20 blows (if “ Turtle-back ” is all we want) is easier than hand 
hammering and grinding. (2) The 2nd argument warrants a review 
of the cave records, for if Paleolithic cave men did make pottery then 
the French classification collapses, and the Museums and Handbooks 
of Europe which it seems have failed to bring out the fact, are not to 
be trusted. (3) Why men who bored polished and carved bone, 
sketched realistic animal designs, and chipped blades equal in make to 
Mexican sacrificial knives did not polish stone seems incomprehensible. 
But the European Museums clearly assert that no polished stone tool 
has been found in the caves. If true, the fact is conclusive against Mr. 
McGuire. The finding of pitted hammerstones in Paleolithic caves 
involves a tendency to carving in the indentations themselves, but some 
of these hammers might have been corn and not stone bruisers after 
all, just as some such (Brough Smith’s Aborigines of Victoria p. 385) 
were used by Australian native divers for clapping under water to scare 
fish into nets as well as to pound roots. 
As to argument (4), the most striking European Drift form, the 
blunt based “ Coup de Poing” is not like the turtle-backs in the Amer- 
ican quarries examined. By no quarry turtle-back analysis can it be 
called an unfinished implement and so unadapted for deposit in graves. 
If Neolithic Men made Coups de Poing as Indians made turtle-backs 
we should only have to go to a Neolithic Quarry to find them, but 
Spiennes, — considered, contains none. 
