PALAEOLITHIC MAN
FIRST FINDS IN BRITAIN British Official Wireless. RUGBY, Tuesday. Two interesting discoveries were mentioned to-day at the meeting in .Glasgow of the anthropology section of the conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. James Ritchie, curator of the natural .history department of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, described the finding of the first record of a palaeolithic man in Scotland. He said this showed that Scotland had been inhabited for long periods in the later stages of the glacial period. Professor Armstrong described the discovery of an engraved bone found in Derbyshire on which is depicted a human figure standing apparently in an attitude of ceremonial dancing. These are the first palaeolithic representations of human figures found in Britain.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 458, 13 September 1928, Page 9
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