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MOULIN QUIGNON

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 934 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOULIN QUIGNON , a See also:quarry near See also:Abbeville, See also:France, celebrated for the See also:discovery in 1863 by See also:Boucher de See also:Perthes of a human See also:jaw-See also:bone believed to be referable to the See also:Quaternary See also:period. By his collection of flints Boucher de Perthes had been the first to See also:attempt to establish the existence of See also:man in remote ages; but it had been objected that if the flints were indeed the See also:work of man, human remains would have been found in association with them. Considerable excitement therefore was created both in See also:England and France by the " find " of bones at Moulin Quignon, and a See also:commission of inquiry was appointed. The See also:report was favourable to the genuineness of the See also:relics, but latterly doubts have arisen as to whether they can be regarded as earlier than the See also:Neolithic See also:age.

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