[37] R. I. Pocock.
[38] See Osborn in his Men of the Old Stone Age. But see Wright’s Quaternary Ice Age for a different view of the Magdalenian Age.
[39] See, for example, H. G. F. Spurrell, Modern Man and His Forerunners, end of Chapter III.
[40] Upon this question W. J. Sollas’ Ancient Hunters is very full and suggestive.
[41] From the cave of Mas d’Azil.
[42] But our domestic cattle are derived from some form of aurochs—probably from some lesser Central Asiatic variety.—H. H. J.
[43] “The various finds of human remains in North America for which the geological antiquity has been claimed have been thus briefly passed under review. In every instance where enough of the bones is preserved for comparison, the evidence bears witness against the geological antiquity of the remains and for their close affinity to or identity with the modern Indians.” (Smithsonian Institute, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 33. Dr. Hrdlicka.)
But J. Deniker quotes evidence to show that eoliths and early palæoliths have been found in America. See his compact but full summary of the evidence and views for and against in his Races of Man, pp. 510, 511.
[44] “Questioned by some authorities,” says J. Deniker in The Races of Man.
[45] A good account of Palæolithic and Neolithic man is to be found in Rice Holmes’ Ancient Britain, 1907. Otis T. Mason’s Origins of Invention also illuminates this period.