Note 139 — PRIMITIVE WARFARE II ON THE RESEMBLANCE OF THE WEAPONS OF EARLY MAN, THEIR VARIATION, CONTINUITY, AND DEVELOPMENT OF FORM.[126]
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Mr. Frere’s first discovery was in 1797 (Archaeologia, xiii. p. 204). (M. Boucher de Perthes began work in 1837 (De la Création, Paris, 1838), and published his Antiquités Celtiques et Antédiluviennes (vol. i) in 1847. His discoveries were, however, not verified and accepted by the British observers till 1858-9.—Ed.)