Identifier: mentonecairocorf00wool (find matches)
Title: Mentone, Cairo and Corfu
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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on of a ball and socket joint ofsome primeval animal, came to the entrance, and forci-bly, if not by force, addressed us: At a recent period it has been discovered that thesefive caverns in this limestone rock— Alas, my porphyry ! murmured Janet. —contain bones of animals mixed with flint instru-ments imbedded in sand. The animals were the foodand the flint instruments the weapons of a race of menwho must have existed far back in prehistoric times.This was a rich discovery; but a richer was to come.In 1872 a human skeleton, all but perfect, a skeleton ofa tall man, was discovered in the fourth cavern, sur-rounded by bones which prove its great antiquity—which prove, in fact, almost beyond a doubt, that it be-longed to—the—Paleolithic epoch / And the Profes-sor paused, really overcome by the tremendous powerof his own words. But I am afraid we all gazed stupidly enough, firstat him, then into the cave, then at him again, with onlythe vaguest idea of Paleolithics importance. I
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57 must except Verney; he knew more. But he had goneinside, and was now digging in the hole in his turn tofind flints for Janet. Mrs. Trescott, who was our bone - master (she hadstudied anatomy, and highly admired form ), askedif the skeleton had been painted in oils. Miss Elaine hoped that they buried it again rever-ently, and in consecrated ground. The Professor gazed at them in turn; he literallycould not find a word for reply. Then I, coming to the rescue, said: I am very dull,I know, but pity my dulness, and tell me why the skel-eton was so important, and how they knew it was soold. The poor man, overcome by such crass ignorance,gazed at his ball and socket joint and at our groupin silence. Then, in a spiritless voice, he said, Thebones surrounding the skeleton were those of animalsnow extinct — animals that existed at a period hereto-fore supposed to have been before that of man; butby their presence here they prove a contemporary, andwe therefore know that he existed at a muc

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