Abstract
The author interprets the Clacton industry as follows: noduletools which include choppers with segmental edge, pointed nodule-tools or proto-bouchers, axe-edged tools, discoidal and polyhedric forms which might be throwing-stones; also trimmed-flakes, knife-edged flake-blades, cores, and waste flakes. The flint nodule-tools are made on the same plan (only somewhat more :advanced) as the far earlier Pebble-tool industries of Asia and Africa. One pebble-tool in quartzite from Clacton might belong to one of those industries, but the trimmed flakes and flake-blades show greater advancement. Simple flakes of Clactonoid form are not, in themselves, evidence of a Clactonian industry. It is suggested that the Clacton industry is of very early tradition-a modified survival of the early pebble-tool industries of Asia and Africa which spread into Western Europe as a major glaciation passed away.
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