Human fossil

Drawing of the Human Fossil, from Belgium, which was exhibited in Leicester Square, London, in June 1840 at a cost of £1 per person entry. The accompanying handbill claimed that this was the fossil of an ante-diluvian child, that is a fossil of a child who lived before Noah's Flood. This particular example is likely to be a concretion that is a mineral mass which forms between layers of sedimentary rock. Conte drawing and chalk

1841 Accompanying Chalk Claimed Concretion Conte Cost Entry Example Exhibited Forms Handbill Layers Likely Lived Mineral Particular Sedimentary

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