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FEW groups of prehistoric finds have provoked a more persistent controversy as to their date and character than those of the Mentone Caves. Were they Palæolithic or Neolithic? Did they belong to the same age as those of the Reindeer Period of the Dordogne? Or should they, on the other hand, be referred to some still living race of men already settled on that Ligurian coast in the “Polished Stone Period”? Other inquirers, again, have sought a third alternative, and referred them to an intermediate period, to which the name “Miolithic,” or, better, “Mesolithic,” has been speculatively given.
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The Man of Mentone1. Nature 49, 42–45 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/049042a0
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