Ancient stone once thought to be man-made but now believed to have been produced by glaciation

Usage examples of eolith.

In 1910, Henri Breuil conducted investigations he thought would put an end to the eolith controversy.

Another important element in the eolith controversy was the platform-angle test, promoted by Alfred S.

Barnes and Breuil, the eolith question continues to haunt archeologists.

Nothing, therefore, prevents one from entertaining the possibility that anatomically modern humans might have been responsible for even the crudest stone tools found at Olduvai Gorge and the European eolith sites.

Another important element in the eolith controversy was the platform angle test, promoted by Alfred S.

Despite the best efforts of Barnes and Breuil, the eolith question continues to haunt archeologists.

For most researchers, eoliths would be the oldest implements, followed in turn by the paleoliths and neoliths.

Unifacial tools, with regular chipping confined to one side of a surface, formed a large part of the eoliths gathered by Harrison.

Therefore, we need not attribute the Plateau eoliths to a primitive race of ape-men.

In order to resolve the controversy over the age of the eoliths, the British Association, a prestigious scientific society, financed excavations in the high-level Plateau gravels and other localities in close proximity to Ightham.

The purpose was to show definitively that eoliths were to be found not only on the surface but in situ, deep within the Pliocene pre-glacial gravels.

In 1895, Harrison was invited to exhibit his eoliths at a meeting of the Royal Society.

But the fruitful field of scientific investigation into the greater antiquity of man opened by the eoliths of the Kent Plateau was buried along with Harrison.

Obermaier was one of those scientists who believed that eoliths were produced by natural forces similar to the forces operating in cement and chalk mills.

In the case of European eoliths, there are two good examples of definitive debunking reports.