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A Further Review of Recent Advances in Palethnology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

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In continuation of my former review of advances made in recent years in the science of palethnology, it seems to me that, in view of the rapidity with which our knowledge of this subject has increased during the last eighteen months or so, it will be opportune and acceptable to once more put before prehistorians a summary of this newly-acquired knowledge, and to point out the great interest and importance of the discoveries which have made that knowledge possible.

I must confess to a certain amount of satisfaction in recognising that some of the forecasts of future, discoveries which I foreshadowed in my former article have in some measure been fulfilled, while some of the lines of research which I suggested might be followed up have been investigated and are in process of partial solution. One of the most important of these, the investigation into the causes and meaning of the “patination” of flint, was worked at by the late Dr. Canton, of Ipswich, who carried through a series of highly interesting experiments in which flints were subjected to the action of various solvents, and it is my hope that some account of this work will be laid before the scientific world in the near future.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , 1914 , pp. 479 - 484
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1914

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11. I understand that Mr. Moir does not claim that all the scratches upon the flints are due to agricultural operations, but in view of his researches it seems probable that a good proportion may have had such an origin.