PRE-MOUSTERIAN MAN 
203 
Professor Hamy had no doubt as to any of the facts 
relating to the discovery. In his excellent treatise on 
Ancient Man ^ he records all the essential facts bearing 
on the authenticity of M. Bertrand's observations. 
The same fate overtook the Clichy skeleton as the 
Abbeville jaw. With the acceptance of Neanderthal man 
as our Pleistocene ancestor, it was relegated to oblivion, 
HUMAN REMAINS 
J8P? -^ 
GRAVEL & RED LOAM 
RED SANDY CLAY 
;.ye:llow sands 
SHARP SANDS 
& 
GRAVELS 
Fig. 70 
— Strata of the gravel pit at Clichy, Paris (after M. Rutot), 
and would probably have remained there had it not been 
for M. Rutot. M. Rutot has spent a lifetime in study- 
ing the river deposits of the valleys of Belgium. He is 
convinced that his observations of the valley deposits of 
Belgium may be applied to the valleys of the adjoining 
countries. He is certain that the terraces of the Seine 
at Paris must have been formed at the same time and in 
the same way as those in the valleys of the Meuse, of the 
Thames, and of the Somme. In 19 10 he visited Paris 
' Precis de pah'onioloi^ie hiunaine, E. T. Hamy, Paris, 1870. 
