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 44 A Short History of The World THEORETICAL RESTORATION OF THE PITHE- CANTHROPUS ERECTUS BY PROF. RUTOT wilderness, clambering to avoid the sabre- toothed tiger, watching the woolly rhinoceros in the woods. Then before we can scrutinize the monster, he vanishes. Yet the soil is littered abundantly with the in- destructible implements he chipped out for his uses. Still more fascina- tingly enigmatical are the remains of a crea- ture found at Piltdown in Sussex in a deposit that may indicate an age between a hundred and a hundred and fifty thousand years ago, though some authorities would put these par- ticular remains back in time to before the Heidelberg jaw-bone. Here there are the re- mains of a thick sub- human skull much larger than any existing ape's, and a chimpan- zee-like jaw-bone which may or may not belong to it, and, in addition, a bat-shaped piece of elephant bone evidently carefully manufactured, through which a hole THE HEIDELBERG MAN had apparently been The Heidelberg Man, as^Mode^lled^ under the supervision of |jQj,g^_ rpherC is alsO