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IN reply to Mr. J. P. Johnson's letter on Tasmanian stone implements in NATURE of November 13, attention may be directed to the paper read by M. Exsteens before the International Prehistoric Congress at Geneva last year, and destined to appear in vol. ii. of the Compte-rendu. It seems that the common opinion in Europe as to the culture represented by these relics of a recently extinct race was based principally on rejects from a large collection; and an inspection of the better worked specimens is sufficient to upset their eolithic origin in favour of a later stage, viz. Le Moustier-Aurignac, which is precisely Mr. Johnson's view. In 1906 the Rev. C. Wilkinson and Mr. Anthony presented a small but typical series of that character to the British Museum.
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SMITH, R. The Stone Implements of the Tasmanians. Nature 92, 373 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092373a0
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