PREHISTORIC MAN IN EGYPT AND SYRIA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1167, 11 July 1884, Page 3

PREHISTORIC MAN IN EGYPT AND SYRIA.

The following has been received hy us from Mr Petrie, Secretary of th,* Institute, with the request that we will puidish same ta the interest of science :

A Gaia Meeting was hel hy tlxe Victoria Philosophical Institute of London in the second week in May, at which its members gave a wonhy welcome to Vic“ Chancellor Dawson, C.M.G., of McGill University, Montreal, at wnoso instance the British Association visits Canada this year. The Society of Arts kindly lent its premises for the occasion, and its great theatre was crowded in every part long before the hour of meeting. The chair was taken by Sir H. Birkly, G.C.M.G-., K.C.8., F.R S„ who —after the new members had been announced by Captain F. Petrie, the secretary —welcomed Ur Dawson amid loud applause, and asked him to deliver his address : It was on “ Prehistoric Man in Egypt and /Syria,” and was illustrated by large diagrams, also flint implem -nts and bones collected by Dr Dawson himself on the spot during his winter tour in theEas ; Professor Boyd-Dawkins, F.R.S., Kindly assisted in the classification of the bones. Iq dealing with his suoject. Dr Dawson res marked that great inierest attaches to any remains which, in countries historically so old, may indicate the residence of man before the dawn of history. In Egypt, nodules of flint are very abundant in the Eocene limest- nes, and, where these have been wasted away, rent i i on the surface, la many places tin re is good evidence that the flint thus to be found everywhere has been, and still is, used for the mannfic:ure of flake*, knives, and i titer implements. These, as is well known, werei used ; lor many purposes by the ancient Egyptians, an 1 in modern times gun flints and s rike-lights fill continue to be male. The debris of woiked flints folin t on the surface is thus of little val”e as an indication of any flnt folk preceding the old Egyptians It would be otherwise if flint implements could be found m the o dor gravels of ihe country. Some of these are of Pieistn cne age, and belong to a period of partial submergence of the Nile Valley. Fin . instruments had been alleged to be found in these gravels, but there seemed to be no good evidence to prove that ihey are other than the chips bioken by mechanical violence in the removal of the gravel by tsrrential action. In the Lebanon, numerous caverns exist. These were divided into two classes, wi hj reference 'O thrir origin ; some being water caves or tunnels of subterranean rivers, others sea-caves, excavated by the waves when the country was at lower level than at present. Bo hj kinds have been occupied by man. and some of them un doubtedlv at a time anterior to the Ph®nieian occupation of the country, and even at a time when the animal inhabitants and geographical features oi the vegi n were different from those of the present day. They were thus of various aces, ringing from the post G1 icial or Antediluvian period t - the time of the Phoenician occupation. Dr Dawson then rein irked that many geologists in these days had an aversion to using the word “ Antidiluvian,” on account of the rature of the work which, in years now gone hy, unlearned people had attributed to tue Flo.. I <ies ri e l in Sc future, hub as the me sum to the u e of that word w , te 1 1 •ujht, not calif i f<v in these diy* ne nopal it Would piss away. Speaking as a geolnui-t, from a piv ely gi ological point of view, and from a thorough examiua ion of the count'y around, there was no doubt but what that there was conclusive evidence that jb-tw**! n the time of the first occupation of th e caves hy men—and they were men ot a s /'en lid physique—and the appearance ot the eardy P, ® dean inhabitants of the laud, there ha l been a va»t submergence of land, and a ■ ■great catastrophe, aye a stupendous one, in which even the Mediterranean had been altered from a sin ill sea to its present size. In illustration of this, ihe caverns at thPass "f Nahv-el Kelb and at Ant Elias were doscr ibed in some detail, an i al-o, in connection writ the e, the occurrence of flint implements on the surface of ra dern s»ndatones at the Capo or Has near Beyrout ; these last were probably of much less anti quitythau thoseof the mom ancient averne. A discussion ensued, which was 1 men par in by a number of distinguish'd Felloas of liryd Society, including Sir H. Barbie. F ILS.. Pr. fe.ssora Wiltshire. F R "b ; Warrington Smyth, F.R -.. Rnnorb Jones. F.C S.; Colonel derschel, F.R.S, the talemed sou of the late Sir John Hersch. 1 ; Dr Rae, F.R 8., the Arctic explorer ; Dr Laws m. F.R.S. ; Mr D. Howard, the vicepresident of the Chemical Institute, an I other geologists. The meeting afterwards adjourned to the Museum, wheio refreshments were served.

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