Monkeys, Apes and Sub-men 45 the thigli bone of a deer with euts upon it hkc a tally. That is all. What sort of beast was this creature which sat and bored holes in bones ? Scientific men have named him Eoanthropus, the Dawn Man. He stands apart from his kindred ; a very different being either from the Heidelberg creature or from any living ape. No other vestige like him is known. But the gravels and deposits of from one himdred thousand j-ears onward are increasingly rich in implements of flint and similar stone. And these implements are no longer rude "Eoliths." The a r c h se o 1 o g i s t s are presently able to distin- guish scrapers, borers, knives, darts, throwing stones and hand axes. . . . We are drawing very near to man. In our next section we shall have to describe the strangest of all these precursors of humanity, the Neanderthalers, the men who were almost, but not quite, true men. But it may' be well perhaps to state quite clearly here that no scientific man supposes either of these creatures, the Heidelberg Man or Eoanthropus, to be direct ancestors of the men of to-day. These are, at the closest, related forms. rYTT^ A'af. Hist. Mus. THE PILTDOWN SKULL. AS RECONSTRUCTED FROM THE ORIGINAL FRAGMENTS [The dark portions)
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