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Title: Archæology and false antiquities
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Munro, Robert, 1835-1920
Subjects: Archaeology Forgery of antiquities
Publisher: Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e existence of a Tertiary man, even of the lowest grade,has not been yet fully established in any country, and thisCalifornia evidence, therefore, stands absolutely alone. It im-plies a human race older by at least one-half than PithecanthropuserectiLs of Dubois, which may be regarded as an incipient formof human creature only. ^ According to these calculations the cranium of a Cali-fornian auriferous gravel man would have been of solow a type as to be undistinguishable from that of theSimian progenitor of Hotno sapiens. But instead of thatwe have in the Calaveras find a skull that could havecontained the brains of a philosopher of the present day. Nor is the handicraft skill of the Tertiary prodigy outof joint with the reversal of evolutionary doctrines whichits existence implies, for he seems to have started life byusing polished stone implements, ornamented mortarsand pestles, spear-heads, and other stone and shell objects, ^ Prehistoric Problems, p. i86. Loc. cit., p. 470. PLATE X
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MORTARS AND OTHER OBJECTS SAID TO HAVE BEEN FOUNDIN THE AURIFEROUS GRAVELS OF CALIFORNIA TERTIARY MAN IN CALIFORNIA 107 all of which are equally inexplicable and improbable onthe hypothesis that they are the productions of humanbeings of that period. On Plate X. are represented a fewcharacteristic specimens of these questionable remains,copied from photographic illustrations by Mr. Holmes,which I think will be sufficient to convince any unpreju-diced inquirer that they must be relegated to the presentIndian civilisation of that continent. The following ex-planatory and descriptive notes on these objects are givenon the same authority :— Fig. I. Globular mortar, with cylindrical pestle, foundin 1861, with other stone relics and the bones of fossilmammals, in auriferous gravels, about 16 feet beneaththe surface, at Kincaid Flat, Tuolumne County. Diameter10 inches. Referred to by Whitney.^ Fig. 2. Obsidian lance-head, found in 1869, with otherrelics and with mastodon remains, in aurife

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