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I IMAGINE that few archæologists who have made a study of palæolithic cultures, will dispute the Abbé Breuil's recent conclusion1 that bone was much more extensively used in the earlier of these cultures than has been generally supposed. But his claim that the Piltdown bone implement owes its shaping to gnawing "by carnivores or rodents", is not, I think, likely to receive much support. The pointed end, and the butt-end, of this specimen are formed by a considerable number of facets which have every appearance of being produced by man. Some of these facets exhibit what may be termed a 'stepped' fracture, and this, I fear, has caused Breuil to conclude that animal's teeth have given rise to them.
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MOIR, J. The Piltdown Bone Implement. Nature 141, 926 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141926b0
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