. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ntrance. It is described ashaving lain with some other implements in contact with teeth ofhyaena, between dark bands of manganese full of bony splinters,which may have been old floors + of the cave; so that theoccupation by the hyaena seems to have succeeded, or alternatedwith, that by mm. It is of white flint, and closely resemblesin form some of the smaller implements from the River Drift. * Vol. xviii., 1862, p. 115 ; xix., 1863, p. 260. See also Dawkins on The Hamid Conditions of the Two earliest-known Races of Men,
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ntrance. It is described ashaving lain with some other implements in contact with teeth ofhyaena, between dark bands of manganese full of bony splinters,which may have been old floors + of the cave; so that theoccupation by the hyaena seems to have succeeded, or alternatedwith, that by mm. It is of white flint, and closely resemblesin form some of the smaller implements from the River Drift. * Vol. xviii., 1862, p. 115 ; xix., 1863, p. 260. See also Dawkins on The Hamid Conditions of the Two earliest-known Races of Men, Quar. Journ. of Science,I860, and Maemillans Magazine, Oct. and Dec, 1870. Hamy, Pal. Hum., p. 117. + Vol. xviii. p. 118. For the use of this block I am indebted to the Council of thelienlogical Society. I >ee Lubbocki Preh. Times, 2nd fd., p. 313. FROM THE WOOKEY HYJENA DEN. 473 It is of less size than the ovoid instruments from Kents Cavern,and is not so neatly made as some of them. A smaller instrumentfrom the Wookey Hyaena Den is of much the same form, but still. li
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