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Died. Lawrence Roger Lumley, Earl of Scarbrough, 72, Lord Chamberlain of the royal household from 1952-63; of a heart attack; in Rotherham, Yorkshire. An old-school aristocrat whose family motto is "A Sound Conscience Is a Wall of Brass," the Lord Chamberlain ran head-on into the New Morality in his traditional role as censor of plays, protected Britons from histrionic homosexuality by barring such plays as Tea and Sympathy and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof from the London stage and emasculated Beckett's Waiting for Godot on grounds of blasphemy...
...around the fireplaces is clear of debris, which seems to indicate that the inhabitants of the house slept near the fires on animal skins. There are several large flat stones scattered about, which may have been used as seats or for carving meat. The most important thing, says De Lumley, "is not so much the bones and the tools found on a prehistoric site as their relative positioning." From this, it is possible to learn a great deal about the life and the social habits of prehistoric...
...been uncovered. And there is evidence that the site was only a temporary dwelling; had it been a permanent home, there would have been more bones and tools around. In fact, because he has found the outlines of as many as five different dwellings on the Nice hillsite, De Lumley has decided that prehistoric hunters must have come back to the Mediterranean littoral periodically, built temporary dwellings there, and then have gone away...
...human fossils have been un earthed so far, nor does De Lumley think that any will be found. The scarcity of human fossils predating Neanderthal man is, in fact, one of the great archaeological blanks, making it difficult to reconstruct human life of hundreds of thousands of years ago. But the age of the dwelling has been conclusively dated from surrounding geological formations, which have been carefully studied over the past century. And corroborating evidence comes from paleontological finds, such as the presence of the Helix pareti snails, which are known to have disappeared during the Second (Mindel-Riss) Interglacial...
When fully explored and analyzed, De Lumley's discovery may compel a drastic reassessment of the social organization and civilization of pre-Neanderthal man in Europe. Until now, working with the meager data available, scientists have been convinced that, unlike the men who inhabited the Riviera site, the creatures of the Second Interglacial Period lived in the open or sought shelter in caves. They were clearly far more civilized than that...