Abstract
PROF. C. G. SELIGMAN, at a meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute on January 11, read an important paper on “The Older Palaeolithic Age in Egypt,” embodying the results of an attempt made in 1914 to secure definite stratigraphical evidence of the antiquity of implements which, if found in Europe, would be classed as Chellean, Acheulean, or Mousterian. The sites visited were Abydos, Thebes, Tel-el-Amarna, Meir, and Wady Sheikh, and a short trip was made to the Fayum. Some areas, however, may be described as flintless; flints of Palaeolithic type were very common in the neighbourhood of Thebes and Abydos, but were scarce near Meir and Tel-el-Amarna, and did not include either Chellean or Acheulean types. Wady Sheikh showed no definite Palaeolithic types, but specimens of early historic date were valuable for the light they threw on the patination of high desert specimens.
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The Older Palæolithic Age in Egypt. Nature 106, 774–775 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106774b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106774b0