THE DATING OF EARLY HUMAN REMAINS. 5 <)- 
HUNSTANTON SKELETON. 
This skeleton was found by Mr. T. Tucker in 1897, in a bed 
of undisturbed gravel, at a depth of about seven feet from the 
surface. The age of the gravel is uncertain, and the remains- 
belong to Modern Man. No claim of Palaeolithic date has 
ever been urged, still the circumstances of the discovery and 
the race-type of the remains might be worth re-investigation 
in the light of the comparative evidences which are now 
available. 84 
CONCLUSION. 
The origin and early history of man is a subject of universal 
appeal, not merely to the archaeologist, the geologist, or the 
biologist, but to all who have a spark of intellectual curiosity 
in their being. 
As we glance over the foregoing brief sketch of the present 
state of this enquiry, the outstanding feature is this : how little 
we yet know of the men themselves as compared with the mass 
of evidence which has accumulated regarding the works of their 
hands. 
I chose this problem for the subject of my address, partly 
from the universality of its interest, and partly because two 
East Anglian discoveries have figured largely in recent specula¬ 
tions, while the sites of several others are situated immediately 
opposite to us across the Thames. Thus we in Essex, between 
Ipswich, Tilbury, and Galley Hill, are in the vortex of the 
controversy which rages round the origin and development 
of the modern race-types of mankind. If these discoveries can 
bear the interpretation placed upon them by some authorities, 
then the development of modern man is pushed far back, com¬ 
paratively speaking, into geological time, and has been a very 
slow process. 
For myself, I do not see that it matters whether the process 
of human evolution has been slower or faster, but what I think 
matters a great deal is this : that we should not build our theories 
upon a foundation which is insecure. 
34 E. T. Newton, Proc. Geol. A*s,<c,, 1898, vol. xv.,p 258- 
