Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c4.s22.2

c4.s22.2

However, it facilitated the understanding and the ready acknowledgement by some of the most prominent British geologists—JOHN EVANS, FALCONER, LYELL, PRESTWICH, PENGELLY—of the significance of the discovery of stone tools (hand axes) in association with fossil animal bones deep down in the cliff over the Somme river at Abbeville in France by BOUCHER DE PERTHES in 1836, and of the discovery, under the direct supervision of PENGELLY in a cave at Brixham, South Devon, in England in 1853.