Flint Implements in the Drift: Being an Account of Their Discovery on the Continent and in EnglandJ. B. Nichols and son, 1860 - 28페이지 |
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Abbeville Acheul Amiens antiquary appear Archæologia beds of drift beds of gravel Biddenham Boucher de Perthes Boulder Clay brick-earth butt cave cavern chalk character circumstances cliff cutting edge depth discovered discovery of flint drift deposits earth edge all round Elephas primigenius England equally convex evidence extinct animals extinct mammalia fact fashioned flint flakes flint implements flint weapons formation fossil fresh-water Geological Society geologist gravel gravel-pits gravelly Gray's Inn Herne Bay Hippopotamus Hoxne human workmanship Hyæna Icklingham imbedded implements found inches instance Kent's Cavern mammalian remains mammoth Menchecourt Motte Piquet Moulin Quignon Museum nature nearly neighbourhood ochreous organic remains Ouse oval pebbles pits places portion present Prestwich probably question race Reculvers Rhinoceros Rhinoceros tichorhinus river river Somme Rouen sandy Schmerling shape sharp shells similar so-called Stone period soil Somme spear-head species specimens spot Succinea surface Swalecliffe Tertiary thickness truncated undisturbed valley Vibraye visited workmen Wyatt
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28 페이지 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
28 페이지 - Reduced. man, been submerged under fresh water, and an aqueous deposit from 20 to 30 feet in thickness, a portion of which, at all events, must have subsided from tranquil water, has been formed upon it ; and this, too, has taken place in a country the level of which is now stationary, and the face of which has been little altered since the days when the Gauls and the Romans constructed their sepulchres in the soil overlying the drift which contains these relics of a far earlier race of men.
10 페이지 - For more than twenty years, like others of my craft, I have daily handled stones, whether fashioned by nature or art, and the flint hatchets of Amiens and Abbeville seem to me as clearly works of art as any Sheffield whittle...
12 페이지 - ... better calculated to be tied to a shaft or handle, with a stop or bracket behind their truncated end. Many of them, indeed, seem to have been intended for use without any handle at all, the rounded end of the flints from which they were formed having been left unchipped, and presenting a sort of natural handle. It is nearly useless to speculate on the purposes to which they were applied...
21 페이지 - No. 246. A British weapon found, with elephant's tooth, opposite to black Mary's, near Grayes Inn Lane.
28 페이지 - Archceologia, vol. xxxviii. (Lond. 1860), 'thus much, appears to ! be established beyond a doubt, that in a period i of antiquity remote beyond any of which we have ; hitherto found traces, this portion of the globe was peopled by man ; and that mankind has nere witnessed some of those geological changes by which the so-called diluvial beds were deposited.
2 페이지 - ... but trifling and immaterial. " The subject of the present paper, the discovery of flint implements wrought by the hand of man, in what are certainly undisturbed beds of gravel, sand, and clay, both on the continent and in this country, tends to show that such. an opinion is erroneous ; and that in this region of the globe, at least, its surface has undergone far greater vicissitudes since man's creation than has hitherto been imagined. A discovery of this kind must of necessity be of great interest...
3 페이지 - ... as exemplifying the changes which the fauna of this region has undergone since man appeared among its occupants; and also to the antiquary, as furnishing the earliest relics of the human race with which he can hope to become acquainted — relics of tribes of apparently so remote a period, that — Antiquity appears to have begun Long after their primeval race was run.
11 페이지 - 1. Flint flakes, apparently intended for arrow-heads or knives. "2. Pointed weapons, some probably lance- or spear-heads. " 3. Oval or almond-shaped implements, presenting a cutting edge all round.
15 페이지 - ... which show that, in all probability, the race of men who fashioned them must have passed away long before this portion of the earth was occupied by the primitive tribes by whom the more polished forms of stone weapons were fabricated, in what we* have hitherto regarded as remote antiquity.