Palaeoliths (of flint) also occur among other flints, but they are not thus limited in their association.
It is necessary to insist upon this succession as European, since palaeoliths are still in use among savage tribes, such as the aboriginal (Bush) natives of South Africa.
Confining attention to palaeolithsand their varieties, the discovery of a form alleged to fill the gap separating the most ancient Neolithic from the least ancient Palaeolithic types may be mentioned.
Palaeoliths had often been obtained from the same stratum as that which yielded the human teeth.
The Egyptian and also the Somali land finds appear to be true palaeoliths in type and remarkably similar to those found in Europe.
A similar sequence of events appears to be indicated at Hoxne, Suffolk, where archaic palaeoliths were discovered as far back as 1797.
It is extremely important to note that Pre-Chellean flints or true palaeoliths have never been found in the sands or gravels of these 'high terraces.
Very primitive palaeoliths from Piltdown, Sussex, consisting chiefly of tools and points of triangular and oval form, fashioned out of flint nodules split in two and flaked on one side only, with very coarse marginal retouch.
The men of the Old Stone Age were attracted to these natural camps and dwelling-places both by the abundance of the raw flint materials from which the palaeoliths were fashioned and by the presence of game.
The earliest palaeoliths occur in the gravels on both the 'middle' and 'upper terraces' of the Somme and the Marne, proving that the gravels were deposited long subsequent to the cutting of the original terraces.
Yet, rather more than half a century ago, when the Abbe Boucher de Perthes found palaeoliths in the gravels of the Somme at Abbeville, and was the first to recognize them for what they are, there was no small scandal.
Take the case of the early palaeoliths of the drift type.
The exceptions are the lower Nile and Zambesi where true palaeoliths have been found not only on the surface (which in this case is not inconsistent with great antiquity) but also in stratified gravel.
It is true that a few palaeoliths have been found on the surface of the Syrian desert, but in the alluvial plains of Southern Chaldaea, as in the Egyptian Delta itself, few certain traces of prehistoric man have been forthcoming.
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