'The report-of the international commission of archeologists on the supposed neolithic remains discover-fed at Glozel has fanned the flames' of battle. Highly respectable old gentlemen are attacking one another in the newspapers by means of letters, articles, and interviews. Dr. Monet, the "discoverer," of course is furious with the commission, whose report is a guarded but sufficiently definite condemnation, and he is try~ ing to show that some of its members were prejudiced against him from the beginning Glozel is a village in the Auvergne moors, 15 miles from Vichy, and near it is the "Death Field" claimed to be the site of a neolithic cemetery. Various articles, chiefly of stone, were dug up, sufficient in number to form a small museum, Some of them were roughly carved and others, bore marks resembling characters, which were taken to be the earliest known attempts of prehistoric man to write. Such relies, if genuine would be exceedingly interesting and valuable, but the commission came to the conclusion that they did not present the appearance of ob-Jects which had been buried for} thousands of years and that some of the carvings seemed to have been done with metal implements which were not known until a much later period in the world's history. They' ventured the opinion that objects. had been placed in the soil at no stant date, by means of drilling holes, which afterwards were filled in with' great care.
In short, the commission considers the "Death Field" to be an elaborate fake perpetrated by some person unknown. M. Salomon Reinach, one of the greatest French authorities in these matters, disagrees with the findings of the commission, and the battle between Glozelians and anti-Glozelians seems likely to go on for many a long day. 7
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