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Rh In the evening address, "On man as artist and sportsman in the Palæolithic period," which I had the honour of delivering at the Southport Meeting of the British Association (1903), I thus alluded to the hiatus theory :—

It appears to me that the difficulty about this so-called hiatus arises partly from a misconception of the facts, and partly from a deficiency of our knowledge of existing archæological materials. If it be the case that it is a theoretical figment, time with some spade work will soon remedy the mistake. Although the progress of the Palæolithic people to a higher civilisation had been extremely slow, still their handicraft products, at successive stages, indicate not only an