Capitolo 66
level of present water, even if their usual elevation doesn't do
exceeds forty feet."<32>
The history of the investigation of the ancient beds of gravel of
the Sums it is shortly this: More than an example you/he/she had been noticed
of the discovery of utensils of flint, apparently men's job,
in the association with bones of various animals as hyenas,
mammoth, musk-sheep and others, what as us we have seen as soon as,
lived in Europe during the Glacial age. In a number of cases
such discoveries had been made in the caverns. But for a lot of time anybody
attributed some special value to these discoveries, and I vary
it was the explanations given to give account of such commingling.
A French geologist, from the name of Boucher DePerthes you/he/she had noticed
the event of similar flint improves, and bones of these
extinct animals, in a hole of gravel on the banks of the Sums nearby
Abbeville, France. He convinced that they tried the
man's existence to the duration in which these ancient animals have lived
Europe. But nobody gave held up his/her opinions on this
submits, and a harvest of these utensils to which him taken
Paris in 1839, was noticed as soon as from the scientific world.
They was certainly very ill-mannered, and he/she introduced but indistinct
traces to cut, and perhaps it is not strange that he failed
to convince some one of their importance. He determined therefore
to make a complete and systematic exploration of these beds to
Abbeville. In 1847 he published his/her great job on this subject,
giving on sixteen one hundred cuts of the various articles he had
it founded, while asking that they was impermeable positive of the presence of
man when gravels were depositing.
Portrait of Flint Equips, so defined.------
They are now there a lot of questions to answer first the
conclusions of the French geologist can be approved. In the
before puts, it is this so defined flint it improves of human creature
workmanship? Our give illustrations, we see, that they is of a
it forms oval, minding to a penetrating edge all around and generally
more or less sharpened to an end. The testimony of entirely competent