Amiens and Abbeville, in the second quarter of the present century, prove that man lived in northern France surrounded by the same group of animals as in Britain. The identity in form of the implements, as pointed out by Mr. Evans and Mr. Flower, leaves no room for doubting that his culture also was of the same low order in Britain and in northern France. The discoveries of similar implements during the last twenty years have extended his range as far south as the deposits of the valley of the Garonne near Toulouse. We may therefore picture him as following the animals in their migrations, now retiring as far south as the Pyrenees, and now pushing as far north as the latitude of Peterborough. He must have found game in great abundance in the well-watered lowlands and round the numerous lakes, now covered by the North Sea and the English and Irish Channels.
The hunter has also left traces of his presence in Spain, in "a wedge-shaped implement unlike the ordinary European types, but similar to one of the Madras forms" (Evans), in the gravels of the Manzanares near Madrid, along with remains ascribed by Professor Lartet to the African elephant. In Italy an ovate implement of the ordinary form has been discovered near Gabbiano in the Abruzzo; and in Greece similar implements are said to have been obtained from beds of sand near Megalopolis, with bones of the great pachyderms.[1]
- ↑ See Evans, op. cit. p. 571; Revue Archéol. xv. 18. The tooth of the pigmy hippopotamus obtained by Dr. Rolleston, and said to have been found in a Greek tomb at Megalopolis, may have been collected from this spot, in which case that animal was a contemporary of man in that region.
