Puy Courny. Upper Miocene (Rames)
(Quatrefages, Races Humaines, p. 95.)
The general reader must be content to rely to a great extent on the verdict of experts, and in this instance of Puy Courny need not perhaps go further than the conclusion of the French Congress of archæologists, who pronounced in favour both of their Miocene and human origin. It may be well, however, to annex a plate showing in two instances how closely the specimens from Puy Courny resemble those of later periods, of the human origin of which no doubt has ever been entertained. It is certainly carrying scientific scepticism to an unreasonable pitch to doubt that whatever cause fashioned the two lower figures, the same cause must equally have fashioned the upper ones; and if that cause be human intelligence in the Quaternary period it must have been human or human-like intelligence in the Upper Miocene.
COPARE QUATERNARY IMPLEMENTS.
WOKEY HOLE—GLACIAL.
(Evans, Stone Implements, p 473.)
PLATEAU DRIFT.