This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...separated in time), with which the ancient stone implements of the Nerbudda, of the interior of the peninsula and of the east coast are associated, and when we find it again applied to the strata in which these bone weapons are embedded, we perceive how little the wide categories of the geologists, founded on a slow ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...separated in time), with which the ancient stone implements of the Nerbudda, of the interior of the peninsula and of the east coast are associated, and when we find it again applied to the strata in which these bone weapons are embedded, we perceive how little the wide categories of the geologists, founded on a slow succession of sediments or animals, are adapted to give us suitable horizons for the progress of man. For if it be geologically correct to include the fauna of the Nerbudda gravels under the same classification with that of the Karnul caves, it is anthropologically inadmissible to give the same horizon to the stone-chippers of the former and the bone-workers of the latter. The interval of time between the Bhutra stone and the Billa Surgam arrows and dagger, although it may have made no difference to the pleistocene rhinoceroses and bears, was obviously long enough to make a vast difference in the progress of mankind, and the fact that the beginning and the end of it are both included geologically in the late pleistocene Rec. G. S., Vol. XIX. must not be allowed to obscure our perception of its length. The geologists will not stint us in years. These remarks are made on the assumption thai the bone implements were actually in association with the extinct animals, though except in the case of the civet, this is not made prefectly clear in the accounts accessible to me. The bones were, indeed, supposed to bear marks of cutting, and this, if established, would settle the point;'but Lydekker thought that those he saw had been gnawed by porcupines. However, there is no improbability in the bone-workers having been contemporary with the animals, for several extinct species, including the mammoth and the cave bear, survived in Europe to a time when art ...
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Add this copy of Old Chipped Stones of India Founded on the Collection to cart. $17.50, good condition, Sold by Dorothy Meyer-Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Batavia, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1906 by Thacker, Spink & Co, Calcutta.
