Ragnarok : the age of fire and gravel

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have been found ; a lower jaw-bone was discovered in a pit at Moulinguignon, and a skull and other bones were found in the valley of the Seine by M. Bertrand.*

And these discoveries have not been limited to rivergravels. Inthe Shrub Hill gravel-bed in England, “in the lowest part of it, numerous flint implements of the paleolithic type have been discovered.” +

We have, besides these sub-drift remains, the skulls of men who probably lived before the great cataclysm,—men who may have looked upon the very comet that smote the world. They represent two widely different races. One is “the Engis skull,” so called from the cave of Engis, near Liége, where it was found by Dr. Schmerling. “It is a fair average human skull, which might,” says Huxley, “have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage.” { It represents a

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civilized, if not a cultivated, race of men. It may represent a victim, a prisoner, held for a cannibalistic feast ; or a trader from a more civilized region.

* “Prehistoric Times,” p. 360. + Ibid., p. 351. + “Man’s Place in Nature,” p. 156.