Category: History - Ancient
Man in the Condition of Savage Life during the Quaternary Epoch--The Glacial Period, and its Ravages on the Primitive Inhabitants of the Globe--Man in Conflict with the Animals of the Quaternary Epoch--The Discovery of Fire--The Weapons of Primitive Man--Varieties of Flint Hat...
Man in the Condition of Savage Life during the Quaternary Epoch--The Glacial Period, and its Ravages on the Primitive Inhabitants of the Globe--Man in Conflict with the Animals...
3. CHAPTER III.The Man of the Great Bear and Mammoth Epoch lived in Caverns-- Bone Caverns in the Quaternary Rock during the Great Bear and Mammoth Epoch--Mode of Formation of these Caverns--T...
4. CHAPTER IV.Other Caves of the Epoch of the Great Bear and Mammoth--Type of the Human Race during the Epochs of the Great Bear and the Reindeer--The Skulls from the Caves of Engis and Neand...
5. CHAPTER I.6. CHAPTER I.The European Deluge--The Dwelling-Place of Man during the Polished-stone Epoch--The Caves and Rock-Shelters still used as Dwelling-Places--Principal Caves belonging to the Polis...
7. CHAPTER II.The _Kjoekken-Moeddings_ or "_Kitchen-middens_" of Denmark--Mode of Life of the Men living in Denmark during the Polished-stone Epoch--The Domestication of the Dog--The Art of F...
8. CHAPTER III.9. CHAPTER I.The Discovery of Metals--Various Reasons suggested for explaining the origin of Bronze in the West--The Invention of Bronze--A Foundry during the Bronze Epoch--Permanent and Iti...
10. CHAPTER II.The Sources of Information at our Disposal for reconstructing the History of the Bronze Epoch--The Lacustrine Settlements of Switzerland--Enumeration and Classification of them-...
11. CHAPTER III.12. CHAPTER IV.13. CHAPTER V.14. CHAPTER VI.15. CHAPTER VII.The Art of War during the Bronze Epoch--Swords, Spears and Daggers--The Bronze Epoch in Scandinavia, in the British Isles, France, Switzerland and Italy--Did the Man of the Bron...
16. CHAPTER VIII.17. CHAPTER I.18. CHAPTER II.Forty years have scarcely elapsed since scientific men first began to attribute to the human race an antiquity more remote than that which is assigned to them by history and tra...
19. CHAPTER I.Man must have lived during the time in which the last representatives of the ancient animal creation--the mammoth, the great bear, the cave-hyæna, the _Rhinoceros tichorinus_, &...
20. CHAPTER II.Man in the condition of Savage Life during the Quaternary Epoch--The Glacial Period, and its Ravages on the Primitive Inhabitants of the Globe--Man in Conflict with the Animals...
21. CHAPTER III.The Man of the Great Bear and Mammoth Epoch lived in Caverns--Bone Caverns in the Quaternary Rock during the Great Bear and Mammoth Epoch--Mode of Formation of these Caverns--Th...
22. CHAPTER IV.Other Caves of the Epoch of the Great Bear and Mammoth--Type of the Human Race during the Epochs of the Great Bear and the Reindeer--The Skulls from the Caves of Engis and Neand...
23. CHAPTER I.We have now arrived at that subdivision of the stone age which we designate by the name of the _Reindeer Epoch_, or the _Epoch of migrated animals_. Many ages have elapsed since...
24. CHAPTER I.The European Deluge--The Dwelling-place of Man during the Polished-stone Epoch--The Caves and Rock-shelters still used as Dwelling-places--Principal Caves belonging to the Polis...
25. CHAPTER II.The _Kjoekken-Moeddings_ or "Kitchen-middens" of Denmark--Mode of Life of the Men living in Denmark during the Polished-stone Epoch--The Domestication of the Dog--The Art of Fis...
26. CHAPTER III.Having in our previous chapters described and delineated both the weapons and instruments produced by the rudimentary manufacturing skill of man during the polished-stone epoch;...
27. CHAPTER I.The Discovery of Metals--Various Reasons suggested for explaining the Origin of Bronze in the West--The Invention of Bronze--A Foundry during the Bronze Epoch--Permanent and Iti...
28. CHAPTER II.The Sources of Information at our Disposal for reconstructing the History of the Bronze Epoch--The Lacustrine Settlements of Switzerland--Enumeration and Classification of them-...
29. CHAPTER III.It was difficult to believe that Switzerland alone possessed the monopoly of these pile-work-constructions. It was certainly to be supposed that the southern slopes of the Alps,...
30. CHAPTER IV.Having described the _lacustrine_ habitations which have been discovered in various parts of Europe, we must now mention the so-called _palustrine_ habitations, as peculiar to t...
31. CHAPTER V.We have just spoken of the discovery and investigation of the _lacustrine habitations_ found in various parts of Europe, and also of the _palustrine villages_ of Northern Italy....
32. CHAPTER VI.The manufacture of pottery, which appears to have remained stationary during the Stone Age, assumed a considerable development during the bronze epoch. The clay intended for mak...
33. CHAPTER VII.The Art of War during the Bronze Epoch--Swords, Spears, and Daggers--The Bronze Epoch in Scandinavia, in the British Isles, France, Switzerland, and Italy--Did the Man of the Br...
34. lid. By an extremely rare chance the soft parts of the body had been tosome extent preserved, and had become converted into a black greasy substance. The bones were decomposed, and had decayed into a kind of blue powder. The brain had preserved its...
35. CHAPTER VIII.In the early part of this period the dead were still buried in those sepulchral chambers which are now called by the name of _dolmens_; Nilsson and Lubbock have drawn somewhat c...
36. CHAPTER I.Without metals, as we have said in one of the preceding chapters, man must have remained for ever in a state of barbarism. To this we must add, that the civilisation of man has...
37. CHAPTER II.The most valuable traces of the manners and customs of man during the earlier period of the iron epoch have been furnished by the vast burial-ground discovered recently at Halls...