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THE Rev. Frederick Smith, the author of a book on the Stone Ages in North Britain and Ireland, has been engaged in archaeological research for more than sixty years. He began to collect from the Cambridge gravels when he was a boy, and he returned to his old hunting-ground in 1924. He has collected many thousands of specimens, and the constnt recurrence of cetain forms has convince4 him that his specimens are implements of various kinds—arrowheads; spear heads, hatchets, knives, and flakers, piercers, and saws-and that certain Af them were fitted with shafts. In addition he has found sculptures-a baboon, eagle's beak, an oyster shell, and so forth. The date attributed to them is pre-Chellean, Chellean, and Acheulean. Mr. Smith argues that though the early arch.Tologists were ridiculed and rejected, their views were afterwards accepted, and by analogy claims indulgence for his own views. The argument is as dangerous as its converse. Mr. Smith figures a number of the specimens which he maintains are implements, showing them with and without hafts, but his illustrations still fail to convince.
Prehistoric Man and the Cambridge Gravels.
Rev.
Frederick
Smith
By the. Pp. viii + 121 + 30 plates. (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd.; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Ltd., 1926.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Prehistoric Man and the Cambridge Gravels . Nature 119, 523 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119523b0
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