Man Volume 15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...of Rothwell, their Date and Origin. By Spencer Percival. With Notes on the Church and Jesus Hospital pamphlet. Illustrated. 2d. (Author.) Printed by Eyrr ANd Spottiswoode, Ltd., His Majesty's Printers, East Harding Street, E.C. ORIGINAL ARTICLES. "With Plate H. Africa, East: Archaeology. "Wayland. Notes on the Occurrence of Stone Implements in the Province E"I of Mozambique. By E. J. Wayland, F.G.S., fyc., Assistant Mineralogica U# Surveyor to the Ceylon Government. Introduction. It was my good fortune, while accompanying the Memba Minerals Expedition of 1911 to Portuguese East Africa, to discover a series of stone implements in association with the gravels of the Monapo River. The small collection of these relics which I was able to make was exhibited at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute last year, t and as the implements show some peculiar features--recalling in many ways the remarkable group of edged stones discovered by Mr. Lamplugh near the Victoria FallsJ--it has been thought that a few notes concerning their characters and occurrence may not be out of place in the pages of this journal. All the specimens figured are now in the Christy Collection (British Museum). I desire here to thank particularly Mr. Reginald A. Smith. F.S.A., of the department of British Antiquities (British Museum), for the kindly interest he has taken in my discovery, and for the excellent photograph accompanying the paper. Phtsiooraphical Conditions. The Monapo is the southernmost and smallest of the three main rivers draining the Portuguese province of Mozambique, in East Africa. It rises about one hundred miles inland, among the mountains of the Mwito and Kokuwi Ranges, at a point very nearly 14 55' South lat. and long. 39 15'. After flowing eastwards f...