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was forced to the conclusion that they were the handiwork of man and of an antiquity before unsuspected. He continued his labors with indifferent success in the gaining of converts until the year 1859, when, by agreement, a committee of fifteen gentlemen supposed to be the best qualified for the task, and in their departments certainly the most learned men of France and England, met on the ground for the purpose of making personal investigations. After discussion, dispute, and difference of opinion, of which I need not speak here, it was finally decided that M. Boucher de Perthes was correct in his theory, and that these implements were the work of man and of an antiquity greater than any before thought of. 
Here was born the new science of Prehistoric Anthropology, and since then it has not only been recognized as a science, but whenever and wherever it has been studied and understood it has increased in dignity and importance.