A MAN OF THE CHELLEAN PERIOD 189 
placed as in modern man. From the conformation of 
the brain and of the chin — being exactly as in modern 
man — we draw the conclusion that the faculty of speech 
was fully evolved. It is difficult to suppose that the 
race who invented and mastered the high art shown by 
Chellean implements had not, long before, attained the 
gift of speech. When it is remembered we are dealing 
with a period — the Chellean — which, so it is estimated 
from the physical changes that have occurred since, lies at 
GALLEY HILL (vERTEXJ GALLEV HILL (BASEJ 
Fig. 64. — Drawings of the Galley Hill skull from above and below. The 
latter shows the degree of twisting or torsion. 
least between a hundred thousand and a hundred and 
fifty thousand years beyond our time, it will be seen that 
a great claim is made, not only for the antiquity of man, 
but for the antiquity of human culture. 
The reader will have a difficulty in believing that 
human remains, to which so great an antiquity is assigned, 
do not show in their structure, as well as in their degree 
of fossilisation, some evidence of their ancient origin. 
They do. In the first place, the condition of preservation 
is peculiar — quite unlike any bones of Neolithic or of 
