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See also:PALAEOLITHIC (Gr. iraXates, old, and )tWBor, See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone) , in See also:anthropology, the characteristic epithet of the See also:Drift or See also:early Stone See also:Age when See also:Man shared the See also:possession of See also:Europe with the See also:mammoth, the See also:cave-See also:bear, the woolly-haired See also:rhinoceros and other extinctanimals. The See also:epoch is characterized by See also:flint implements of the rudest type and never polished. The fully authenticated remains of palaeolithic man are few, and discoveries are confined to certain areas, e.g. See also:France and See also:north See also:Italy. The See also:reason is that interment appears not to have been practised by the See also:river-drift hunters, and the only bones likely to be found would be those accidentally preserved in caves or See also:rock-shelters. The first actual find of a palaeolithic See also:implement was that of a rudely fashioned flint in a sandbank at Menchecourt in 1841 by See also:Boucher de See also:Perthes. Further discoveries have resulted in the See also:division of the Palaeolithic Age into various epochs or sequences according to the faunas associated with the implements or the localities where found. One See also:classification makes three divisions for the epoch, characterized respectively by the existence of the cave-bear, the mammoth and See also:reindeer; another, two, marked by the prevalence of the mammoth and reindeer respectively. These divisions are, however, unsatisfactory, as the See also:fauna relied on as characteristic must have existed synchronously. The four epochs or culture-sequences of G. de See also:Mortillet have met with the most See also:general See also:acceptance. They are called from the places in France where the most typical finds of palaeolithic remains have been made—See also:Chellian from Chelles, a few See also:miles See also:east of See also:Paris; See also:Mousterian from the cave of Moustier on the river Vezere, See also:Dordogne; Solutrian from the cave at Solutre near See also:Macon; and See also:Madelenian from the rocky shelter of La Madeleine, Dordogne.
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