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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...men of science demanded, however, the production, if possible, of stronger proofs in support of so momentous an assertion as that of the contemporaneity of man and pleiocene species. Another discovery, equally unlooked for, soon excited in the scientific world an interest equal to that created by the communication made by M. Desnoyers to the Academy, namely, that of the carved flints (arrow heads and scrapers) found beneath the meiocene deposits of Thenay, in the department of Loir-et-Cher. However extraordinary and unexpected this new discovery might appear, the Abbe Bourgeois asserted it as a fact without the smallest hesitation before the Prehistoric Congress assembled at Paris in 1867. 'The presence of carved flints at the bottom of the chalk in Beauce, ' says the learned abbe, 'is a remarkable fact, and hitherto without precedent; but it is in my opinion authentic and of great importance.' He even attempts to trace, by means of data collected on the spot, the order of the appearance of the various species which succeeded each other in Beauce and Orleanais after the 1 J. Desnoyers, Sw let indices materiels de la coexistence de Tlwmme, aveo Ielephas meridionalis dans un terrain des environs de Ckartres plut aneien que les terrains de transport quaternaires des vallees de la Somme.et de la Saone. (Comptes-rendus de VListitut, 8 juin 1863.) N date of the flints found below the meiocene beds in these districts. 'On the shores of the lake of Beauce, ' he says, 'man lived in the midst of a fauna which completely disappeared (aceratherium, tapir, mastodon). With the fluviatile sands of Orleanais came the anthropomorphous monkey (pliopithecus antiquus), the di/notherium Cuvieri, the mastodon angustidens, the mastodon tapinoides, the mastodon Pyrenaicus, &c. Th...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236149701
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 108
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 123614970X
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 209 gr


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