Notes on the Tasmanian Amorpholithes

I. INTRODUCTION.
The application of the terms: Eolithic, Palaeolithic, and even Neolithic to designate certain groups of stone implements, has of late become very erratic and uncertain.
There is a large group of implements which leave no doubt that it was the intention, the will of their makers to produce a certain, well-defined form. These implements bearing evidence of the intention or will to produce a certain shape may be conveniently termed : Morpholithes.
The other large group represents all those numerous, shapeless implements, which bear no evidence of the maker's will or intention to produce a definite shape. This group of implements may fitly be termed: Amorpholithes.
It will at once be seen that the Amorpholithes represent a lower technical stage than the Morpholithes, and that of necessity they are not so conspicuous objects as the latter.
I therefore divide the Araorpholithes into two groups, viz :—Eolithes and Archaeolithes.
The cave deposits which most certainly exist in Tasmania will have to be examined, and the question whether there is any relationship between the extinct fauna occuring on King's Island, and the former inhabitants will have carefully to be gone into.
After all these questions have been studied and decided one way or other, we will be in a much better position to settle the antiquity of the Eolithic-Archaeolithic civilisation in Tasmania. In the meantime our most urgent duty is to collect as much information about the occurence of the relics of a race that became extinct within the memory of the present generation, or else a time will come when it is again "too late" and a future generation will blame us for our omissions.