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PRESTWICH, Joseph (1812 – 1896)

PRESTWICH, Joseph (1812 – 1896)

1812 – 1896

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Unknown author Unknown author · Popular Science Monthly Volume 52 · Public domain

1860 CE

#7262

On the occurrence of flint-implements, associated with the remains of animals of extinct species in beds of a late geological period, in France at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne.

This paper is a key record of the early recognition of the antiquity of man by the scientific establishment. Having returned from a visit to Abbeville, France, in May 1859, where he viewed the evidence for the antiqui…