[1596] To quote Mr. Allen Brown (Journ. Anthr. Inst., xxii, 1893, p. 93), ‘Sir J. Evans says, “It is almost demonstrable that some of the chipped celts which have hitherto been classed as Neolithic must be among the earliest of the Neolithic implements,” and “must in all probability date back to a very distant period”. It is to these forms, which appear to be of transition age, that I would apply the term Mesolithic.... At present some flint implements, which from their form would be ranged under one of the later Palaeolithic groups by the French geologists, would be included in the ... Neolithic in England.’ Mr. Brown’s quotation from Sir John Evans (Anc. Stone Implements, pp. 85-6) is substantially but not verbally accurate.
[1597] Cave Hunting, pp. 353-9; Early Man in Britain, pp. 233-42.
[1598] See A. Lang, Custom and Myth, 1885, p. 310.
[1599] See p. 49, supra.
[1600] See Journ. Anthr. Inst., xiv, 1885, pp. 387-8; L’Anthr., xvi, 1905, pp. 707-9; xvii, 1906, pp. 180-2.
[1601] Cave Hunting, p. 243.
[1602] Vict. Hist. of ... Somerset, i, 179.
[1603] Journ. Anthr. Inst., xxiii, 1894, p. 257.
[1604] L’Anthr., vii, 1896, pp. 1-17, 388-9; R. Munro, Prehist. Problems, pp. 66-81; Archaeol. Journal, lv, 1898, pp. 277-84; Athenaeum, Jan. 14, 1899, p. 53; Rev. de l’École d’anthr., ix, 1899, p. 275, xiv, 1904, pp. 160, 378; Bull. et mém. de la Soc. d’anthr., 5e sér., v, 1904, p. 614; Association franç. pour l’avancement des sc., 33e sess., 1904 (1905), p. 1035.
[1605] See p. 61, supra. Dr. A. J. Evans, who in 1893 was ‘so overpowered by the vision of the yawning hiatus’ between the Palaeolithic and the Neolithic Age that he regarded the skeletons of the Baoussé Roussé caves as neolithic, has of course since recanted (Report of ... the Brit. Association, 1896, p. 908).