The New Stone Age in Northern Europe

Man has been described as a "walking museum of paleontology." He is like a mountain whose foundations were laid in a time so ancient that even the paleontologist hardly finds a...

During the last great advance of the ice in the earlier Magdalenian epoch the Scandinavian peninsula had been buried beneath a great mass of ice, and resembled the central porti...

Our history of Paleolithic times is drawn very largely from the successive strata of remains found in rock-shelters and near the mouths of caves, where the succession of epochs...

The winter of 1853-1854 was exceedingly cold and dry. The surface of the Swiss lakes sank lower than at any time during many preceding centuries. The lowering of the water tempt...

The culture of the oldest lake-dwellings appears suddenly in Europe, and its beginnings are exotic in all their essentials. The turbary cattle were quite different from the wild...

Megaliths, those great stone monuments of prehistoric time, have always excited the wonder and interest of all observers.[86] Under the name of dolmens or stone chambers, cromle...

Our very hasty glance at different aspects of Neolithic culture has shown its marked diversity in different regions. Its essential and fundamental characteristic was the introdu...

"We must imagine Europe in upper Paleolithic times again as a terminal region, a great peninsula toward which the human emigrants from the east and from the south came to mingle...

The study of history without a thorough knowledge of geography is almost as futile as the hope of interpreting the structure of the ape without thinking of his arboreal life.[13...

Man's ancestors, as we have seen, owed their progress to their training, policing, and harassing by stronger and better-armed competitors. The earliest vertebrates developed a n...

It is a far cry and long and weary road from the ape descending from the trees and the ape-man shuffling over the ground, keeping close to his arboreal refuge, to the lake-dwell...

Said Max Müller in his _Biographies of Words_: "I have declared again and again that, if I say Aryan, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who...

135. Reinhardt, L. _Die Erde und die Kultur._ Munich, 1912(?). a. Vol. I, _Die Erde und ihr Wirthschaftsleben._ b. Vol. II, _Kulturgeschichte des Menschen._ c. Vol. III, _Kultur...

179. Veblen, T. _The Instinct of Workmanship._ New York, 1914. Clothing. G, I, 268; J, 19; 90, F. Ornaments. B, II, 328; A, II, 570. Implements. A, 513; B, II, 168; D, 472, 478;...

[178] I have selected for examination Professor Kossina's article, and that not his latest, because it seems to furnish the strongest and clearest brief statement of the theory...