The Recent Origin of Man: As Illustrated by Geology and the Modern Science of Pre-historic ArchaeologyJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1875 - 598 páginas |
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America ancient animals antiquity appears archæologists arrow-heads axes barrows beach belong bones Boucher de Perthes Bronze Age Cæsar cave-bear caverns caves celts century coast coins cotemporary Denmark deposit depth discovery dolmens Egypt elephant epoch Europe evidence excavations existence extinct fact fifty flint flint implements forests fossil fragments France geological Glacial gravel hatchets horse human hundred feet hyæna inches Indians inhabitants Ireland Irish elk Iron Age island knives Lake Lake-Dwellings land mammoth mastodon Matériaux mentioned ments metal metres miles monuments mounds North Northern observed occur Paleolithic peat period polished stone pottery pre-historic present probably Prof race recent referred region reindeer relics remains remarks rhinoceros river river-gravel Roman rude sand says Scotland shells shore Siberia Sir Charles Lyell Sir John Lubbock skeleton skull Solutré Somme Southern stalagmite Stone Age stone implements surface swords thousand tombs traces tribes tumuli valley weapons
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Página 344 - That in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals which had been created for the use of the Indians...
Página 221 - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
Página 344 - Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his subject, informed him that it was a tradition handed down from their fathers, "That in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the...
Página 198 - Every bone was in its natural place, the femur, tibia, fibula, ankle-bone, or astragalus, all in juxtaposition. Even the patella or detached bone of the kneepan was searched for, and not in vain. Here, therefore, we have evidence of an entire limb not having been washed in a fossil state out of an older alluvium, and then swept afterwards into a cave, so as to be mingled with flint implements, but having been introduced when clothed with its flesh, or at least when it had the separate bones bound...
Página 456 - ... served for the fabrication of implements. The age of stone in Denmark coincided with the period of the first vegetation, or that of the Scotch fir, and in part at least with the second vegetation, or that of the oak. But a considerable portion of the oak epoch coincided with
Página 344 - ... of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Página 372 - From the northernmost point of the Gulf of Trieste, where the Isonzo enters, down to the south of Ravenna, there is an uninterrupted series of recent accessions of land, more than one hundred miles in length, which, within the last two thousand years, have increased from two to twenty miles in breadth.
Página 273 - In one case, however, M. Boucher de Perthes observed several large flat dishes of Roman pottery lying in a horizontal position in the peat, the shape of which must have prevented them from sinking or penetrating through the underlying peat. Allowing...
Página 261 - The great number of the fossil instruments, which have been likened to hatchets, spear-heads, and wedges, is truly wonderful. More than a thousand of them have already been met with, in the last ten years, in the valley of the Somme, in an area fifteen miles in length. I infer that a tribe of savages, to whom the use of iron was unknown, made a long sojourn in this region ; and I am reminded of a large Indian mound, which I saw in St Simond's Island, in Georgia — a mound ten acres in area, and...
Página 573 - ... on this island. Being the first who were acquainted with its beauty and fertility, they published them to other nations. The Tuscans, when they were masters at sea, designed to send a colony thither, but the Carthaginians found means to prevent them on the two following accounts; first, they were afraid lest their citizens, tempted by the charms of that island, should pass over hither in too great numbers, and desert their own country; next they looked upon it as a secure asylum for themselves,...