MAN COEVAL WITH EXTINCT ANIMALS. THE CAVE-PEOPLE. HEAPS. - LAKE-DWELLINGS OF SWITZERLAND. SCANDINAVIAN SHELLHABITS OF THE PRIMITIVE MAN. TWO STONE AGES.- RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN STONE RELICS OF TWO HEMISPHERES. -AMERICA THE OLDEST CONTINENT.-A ZONE OF PYRAMIDS. TRADITIONS OF A LOST CONTINENT. SHELL-HEAPS IN UNITED STATES. A PRE-HISTORIC HUNT IN MISSOURI. -HUMAN REMAINS IN GOLD-DRIFT OF CALIFORNIA. SUPERIOR ANTIQUITY OF MAN IN AMERICA. THE period and the conditions of the early existence of man have, within the last half century, been the subject of fresh and interesting investigation. The recognition of human relics in certain geological relations has established the fact that there once prevailed in Europe a barbarism essentially like that belonging to the lower type of savages of our own time. This primeval state of man in man in Euthat portion of the world existed too long ago to be included within the historic period; and, so far as careful observation has been made, similar evidence of the antiquity of the race is found in the Antiquity of rope. |