WHEN DID MAN APPEAR? 
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been unearthed three layers of tree deposits. In the 
lowest are remains of Scotch firs which have never 
existed in historic times. In the second layer were 
Fig. 49.—A contemporary of man. 
flint weapons, arnon^^ the bones of the stag and pri¬ 
meval ox. In the third were bronze shields among 
oak trees. Chipped flints with bones of the horse 
and other mammals have been excavated from depos¬ 
its in Kent, England, which are said to belong to the 
Champlain or later Ice period. A curious thick skull 
of low arch was found by Neanderthal, in Germany, 
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