CHAPTER XI.

TERTIARY MAN.

Definition of Periods--Passage from Pliocene to Quaternary--Scarcity of Human Remains in Tertiary--Denudation--Evidence from Caves wanting--Tertiary Man a necessary inference from widespread existence of Quaternary Man--Both equally inconsistent with Genesis--Was the first great Glaciation Pliocene or Quaternary?--Section of Perrier--Confirms Croll's Theory--Elephas Meridionalis--Mammoth--St. Prest--Cut Bones--Instances of Tertiary Man--Halitherium--Balæonotus--Puy-Courny--Thenay--Evidence for--Proofs of Human Agency--Latest Conclusions--Gaudry's Theory--Dryopithecus--Type of Tertiary Man--Skeleton of Castelnedolo--Shows no approach to the Missing Link--Contrary to Theory of Evolution--Must be sought in the Eocene--Evidence from the New World--Glacial Period in America--Palæolithic Implements--Quaternary Man--Similar to Europe--California--Conditions different--Auriferous Gravels--Volcanic Eruptions--Enormous Denudation--Great Antiquity--Flora and Fauna--Point to Tertiary Age--Discovery of Human Remains--Table Mountain--Latest Finds--Calaveras Skull--Summary of Evidence--Other Evidence--Tuolumne--Brazil--Buenos Ayres--Nampa Images--Take us farther from First Origins and the Missing Link--If Darwin's Theory applies to Man, must go back to the Eocene 343