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UNTIL the summer of 1926 no indubitable trace of palæolithic man had been found in Scotland, if the Azilian remains of the west coast and the Tardenoisian flints scattered throughout the country be regarded as belonging to an intermediate period between the old and new stone ages. The persistent absence of paleolithic evidences has generally been ascribed either to the presence of an ice-sheet covering Scotland at a date long after such Arctic conditions had disappeared in England and Wales and to the con sequent non-presence of human beings, or to the erasure of traces of palheolithic humanity deposited in a period of interglacial mildness by a later recrudescence of the ice-sheet.
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Palæolithic Man in Scotland. Nature 119, 475–476 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119475b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119475b0