ABSTRACT
Primitive man was essentially an unreasoning brute, intellectually but little above other beasts; self-consciousness of race probably does not date back much more than 100 or 200 thousand years. Some archaeologists maintain that the earliest traces of the handiwork of man, arrow-heads and other stone implements, were not produced more than about ten thousand years ago, but other writers ascribe a vastly greater age; many such finds have been assigned to pre-glacial times, or perhaps 250 thousand years ago. For instance, this little figure (Fig. 9), of which three different views are shown, was found in the borings brought up from the bottom of an artesian well near Nampa, in Idaho. —Three views of the same burnt clay figure, found at Nampa, Idaho; pre-glacial. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315828251/ca226832-5963-497a-8fd3-07879cfd2408/content/fig9_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> The arrangement of such a well permits only the entrance of the detritus of boring at the bottom; when this well had reached the depth of 320 feet, this little figure of burnt clay, shown here in about actual size, came up with the expelled mud and water.
