Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses

If this work had any pretension to being a complete history or statistical account of the Rude Monuments of the world, it might be necessary to describe somewhat in detail, and...

It is probable, after all, that it is from the Irish annals that the greatest amount of light will be thrown on the history and uses of the Megalithic monuments. Indeed, had not...

If there existed any acknowledged facts or accepted data with regard to the megalithic remains we are now treating of, the logical method of following out the subject would be t...

The detailed examination of these groups at Avebury and Stonehenge will probably be deemed sufficient to establish at least a _prima facie_ case in favour of the hypothesis that...

The number of rude-stone monuments in India is probably as great or even greater than that of those to be found in Europe, and they are so similar that, even if they should not...

It is only in very recent times that the French have turned their attention to the study of their Rude-Stone Monuments; but since they have done so, it has been in so systematic...

So much has been said by the Danes and their admirers of the services that they have rendered to the study of prehistoric archæology that it is rather disappointing to find that...

SO great and so successful has been the industry recently applied to subjects of archæological research that few of the many problems in that science which fifty years ago seeme...

Whatever may be the case as regards Ireland, it is probable that the megalithic remains of Scotland are all known and have been described more or less in detail. Such descriptio...

Before attempting to examine or describe particular instances--in which, however, the main interest of the work must eventually be centred--it would add very much to the clearne...

Before leaving the Mediterranean Sea and the countries bordering upon it, it seems desirable to say a few words regarding certain "non-historic" monuments which exist in its isl...

It would be difficult to find a more curious illustration of the fable of "Eyes and no Eyes" than in the history of the discovery of dolmens in northern Africa. Though hundreds...

It would not be easy to find a more apt illustration of the difficulty and danger of writing such a book as this than the history of how we acquired our knowledge of Spanish dol...

Palestine is one of those countries in which dolmens exist, not in thousands and tens of thousands, as in Algeria, but certainly in hundreds--perhaps tens of hundreds; but trave...

FRANCE. Introductory--Distribution of Dolmens--Age of Dolmens--Grottes des Fées--Demi-Dolmens--Rocking Stones-- Carnac--Locmariaker--Alignments at Crozon--Age of the Monuments--...