The Archive · 1933

Man's First Implements

The first implements possibly developed from the accidental lodging of stone fragments in the splinter ed ends of sticks used for support.

perhaps had its origin during the rathing, while the use of Are period of the glacial sheets, when prehumans may have been attract-€d towards forest blazes caused by. lightning, and carried off burning: boughs.' When these ancestors of man crossed the Kuen Lun into a basin where there were no sharp stone fragments ready to hand, all! having been rounded by water' action, they had to take the forther step of learning to shape stones by chipping. Tt was. along the fringe! of the desert towards Southern Jupiter la now a morning star, but too near the Sun for naked eye cbser= vation." At the end of the month. rises two hours before the Sun in the Constellation Virgo, Rises on ist at $41 retrograde in Capri. cormus is stationary inthe sky' on Tete, the then wi ove saatwanes Tt may night. pipes observed in the rat part of ths

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