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234 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII,
core. The finding of several implements in a cave together
with flakes is fairly conclusive evidence that the inhabitants
understood the working of stone, but the discovery of a single
implement, such as that recorded by Mr. Wray, is not necessarily
so. Whether the dwellers in the Lenggong caves knew
how to polish, or make, stone implements by a rubbing down
process must, on the evidence before us, remain a matter for
doubt; but, if they did. and we are to regard the specimens
that I have described as being roughly blocked out and
unfinished implements of neolithic culture, it is difficult to see
into what known Peninsular type, or types, they were to be
turned. On the other hand the fact that the stone implements
were made by former inhabitants of the Lenggong caves
increases the probability of Mr. Wray's polished implement
having been made by cave-dwellers too. What relation in
point of age the Lenggong deposits bear to those of Gunong
Cheroh is, however, uncertain.
With regard to the use of pottery it would seem most
probable that the earliest inhabitants of the Lenggong caves
did not possess any : but a very little may, perhaps, have been
in use while the making of stone implements was still a known
art.