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The Origin of the “Rostro-Carinate Implements” and other Chipped Flints from the Basement Beds of East Anglia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

F. N. Haward
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It is not necessary to dispute the existence of a Rostro-Carinate type of undoubtedly human manufacture. It occurs occasionally in the Late Stone Age. I have several in my own Collection which are probably fabricators and triangular implements of Neolithic Age.

My criticism applies solely to certain so-called “Humanly-made Implements” from the Basement Beds of East Anglia, which I consider bear only a superficial resemblance to the undoubted specimens. While the latter stand every investigation as to the characteristics of the chipping itself, the former, though they may bear some resemblance, will not, to my mind and that of many other students, stand critical examination.

Sir E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., in his monograph on “The Test Specimen of the Rostro-Carinate Industry found beneath the Norwich Crag” (see Plate XV, E), claimed the “Rostro-Carinate” as a new type of “Implement” made by Man of a much greater antiquity than the Palæolithic Period.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , 1919 , pp. 118 - 146
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1919

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