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ago.
Such things
were being reported
about 150 years
Jacques Boucher de Perthes
(1788-1868) was one of the founders of
modern archaeology. In the 1840s, he found
stone tools in excavations at Abbeville in northeast
France, in the valley of Somme River. The
stone tools were found in association with fossils
of extinct animals. After initially resisting the
finds, the international community of archaeologists
accepted them. At one of the Abbeville sites,
the quarry at Moulin Quignon, Boucher de
Perthes found in the same layers as the stone
tools an anatomically modern human jaw. This
discovery was quite controversial. The jaw was found at a depth of several meters, along with several
stone tools, in a layer just above an underlying chalk formation, which forms the base for the
Abbeville sedimentary deposits. According to modern archaeologists (E. Carbonell and X. P. Rodriquez),
the artifact-bearing sedimentary layers at Abbeville are about 430,000 years old (Journal of
Human Evolution, 1994, vol. 26, p. 306).
Some scientists found the discovery hard to accept, and a controversy arose. A commission of
French and English scientists convened at the site to decide the issue. The commission found in
favor of Boucher de Perthes. The statement approved by majority vote concluded: “The jaw in
question was not fraudulently introduced into the gravel pit of Moulin Quignon. . . . All leads one
to think that the deposition of this jaw was contemporary with that of the pebbles and other materials
constituting the mass of clay and gravel designated as the black bed, which rests immediately
above the chalk.” (Falconer et al. The Natural History Review, 1863, vol.3, p. 452)
But prominent scientists who were not part of the commission continued to oppose the discovery.
One of these was the British scientist John Evans (1823-1908). He was certain that Boucher
de Perthes had been the victim of a hoax. In other words, some local workmen had planted the
human jaw bone for him to find in his excavation. There was no definite proof of any such hoax,
yet Evans continued to promote this idea in newspaper articles, and gradually most scientists became
convinced. In the textbooks today, the Moulin Quignon jaw is presented as a hoax.
What the textbooks generally fail to mention is that Boucher de Perthes, in order to disprove
the accusation that he was the victim of a hoax by workmen, conducted additional excavations.
These new excavations were carried out
under conditions that ruled out any
hoaxing. First of all, they were carried out
during a period when the quarry at
Moulin Quignon was shut down and the
usual workmen were not there. Also,
Boucher de Perthes made his investigations
unannounced and started digging at
random places. In almost all cases, witnesses
with scientific or medical training
were present. In some cases, these wit-
nesses organized their own careful excavations
to independently confirm the discoveries
of Boucher de Perthes. In these
new excavations, Boucher de Perthes
found about a hundred more anatomically
modern bones and teeth in the same
formations that had yielded the original
jaw. Summarizing his discoveries,
Boucher de Perthes wrote: “Among the
human remains, one most frequently encounters
pieces of femur, tibia, humerus,
and especially crania, as well as teeth,
some whole and some broken. The teeth
The
Moulin
Quignon
Jaw
Jacques
Boucher de
Perthes
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