e mammoth, rhinoceros, reindeer, and other ex-tinct animals. It is admitted that these gravel bedsare post-glacial, but Sir Charles Lyell, Sir John Lub-bock, Mr. Evans, and the archseologists generally, assign 122 THE EPOCH OF THE MAMMOTH. to them a vast antiquity, and maintain that they… … riint Hatchet from the River-gravel. cover the gravel, and Sir Charles Lyell and Sir JohnLubbock, without explicitly accepting, substantiallyacquiesce in this conclusion. The gravels (in some places twenty or thirty feet RIVER-GRAVELS. 123 thick) were, as remarked, laid down before this…
Archaeology · Human beings -- Origin
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