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Guide to the Fossil Remains of Man 
PILTDOWN MAN (Eoanthropus dawsoni). 
True man, though of very low degree, had certainly reached 
Europe by the end of the Pliocene or beginning of the Pleistocene 
period. He had even spread so far as the southern part of 
England (then united with the continent), as proved by the 
discovery of portions of a remarkable skull and lower jaw in a 
river gravel at Piltdown, near Fletching, almost midway between 
Crowborough and Lewes in the Weald of Sussex. This discovery 
was made in 1912 by Mr. Charles Dawson, E.S.A., F.G.S., and 
the remains were presented to the Museum in 1913 by himself 
and the lord of the manor, Mr. G. M. Maryon- Wilson. 
Table of Geological Ages dueing which Man has lived in 
Westeen Eueope, 
corresponding with top black line in Table on p. 2. 
Ages named after nature of 
Implements. 
Species of Man. 
Holocene. 
Historic. 
Iron Age. 
Bronze Age. 
Neolithic <New Stone Age). 
Modern Man. 
Pleistocene. 
Palaeolithic 
f Magdalenian. 
Solutrean. 
Aurignacian. 
Mousterian. 
Acheulean. 
^ Chellean. 
Neanderthal Man. 
? 
Heidelberg Man. 
Piltdown Man. 
Pliocene. 
Eolithic (Dawn Stone Age). 
? 
(For an account of the successive forms of stone implements see " A Guide to the 
Antiquities of the Stone Age in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities.") 
The Piltdown gravel had attracted the attention of Mr. Dawson 
for some time, because he had noticed in it numerous peculiar 
flints from the chalk, which could not have been carried to the 
spot by any existing stream. The nearest watercourse is the Eiver 
Ouse, which has cut a valley 80 feet deep since the gravel in 
question was deposited, and this river at present has no source in 
the chalk. The geography of the region has, in fact, completely 
changed, and the Piltdown gravel may have been left not even 
