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I.—On some Palæolithic Flake-implements from the High Level Terraces of the Thames Valley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Henry Dewey
Henry Dewey
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of H.M. Geological Survey.
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Over most of North-Western Europe the occurrence of river-terrace deposits containing Palæolithic implements has been long known, and the establishment of a sequence of forms among these implements has resulted from the researches of Continental, and especially of French archæologists. With the pioneer work the name of M. Boucher de Perthes, of Amiens, will always be associated. His was the task of convincing unwilling minds of the human workmanship of the ancient flint-weapons found in the gravel-pits of the Somme Valley. For the next great advance we owe a debt of gratitude to another French savant, the late Professor Victor Commont, for his life-work was the taking up of the researches of his predecessor and establishing the sequence of cultural types and their relative chronology.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , February 1919 , pp. 49 - 57
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1919

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