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THE DATING OF EARLY HUMAN REMAINS. 
by the human remains themselves. Personally I do not believe 
for a moment that any such human industry existed. 
THE HUMAN INDUSTRIES. 
The order of the human industries which will be referred 
to in the sequel is as follows :— 
Recent Man— 
Historic Times 
Early Iron Age 
Bronze Age 
Neolithic, or Later Stone, Age 
Azilian stage ? [Transition from Palaeolithic] 
Palaeolithic Man— 
Magdalenian Stage 
Solutrian ,, 
Aurignacian ., 
Mousterian ,, 
Acheulean ,, 
Chellean ,, 
Early Palaeolithic Stage 
Pre-Stone Age Man, or the Age of Wood (?) 
PRE-STONE AGE CULTURE, OR THE AGE OF 
WOOD. 
The most primitive group of implements that we find in 
use among modern savages belong to what may be called the 
“ Age of Wood.” This is not necessarily associated with either 
time or race, but is essentially a question of state of culture. 
Broadly speaking, the implements for hammering or crushing 
consist of natural (unworked) stones ; while implements for 
cutting and piercing consist of thorns, the talons and teeth of 
wild animals, and the like. True stone implements, that is 
stone deliberately fashioned into some useful form of implement, 
are wanting. 
It seems to me a reasonable, indeed an inevitable, supposition 
—although perhaps it may be incapable of proof—that something 
of the same sort must have obtained among the earliest races 
of mankind. Possibly this may explain the poverty in flint 
implements which will be noted in the deposits which have 
yielded the earliest remains of man himself. Certainly we appear 
to have the remains of man himself at an earlier date than that 
at which we find evidences of unquestionable stone implements. 
