Machine-Made Eoliths

features in the plateau flints (which I admit worthy of the name) that I have iiot seen in any of Nature's counterfeits, and vice versa.I regret I mtust admit tl]at the real battle of the plateau flints has yet to be fought!and that my highly esteemed old friend, Sir Joseph Prestwich, was a little prophetic in hlis claims.But we now possess a vast amount of information that was not at hand when he published his classic papers.There is, however, another almost insuperable difficulty with which I feel myself cornfronted ; it is this, that a large proportion of the specimens which have been paraded as eoliths by over-zealotus collectors are obviously nothing more than natural products !and further, a large proportion of the rest mright just as well have been produced by nature as man !But behind these come the conmparatively few which physics, chemistry, and geology claim as the work of man in ani evolutionary state in pre-paloeolithic times.It is when one realises that thlese things exhibit an evolutionary history, contemporary or synchronous, with geological changes of no small This content downloaded from 128.111.121

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