International Congress of Prehistoric Archæology: Transactions of the Third Session which Opened at Norwich on the 28th August and Closed in London, on the 20th August 1868 ....Longmans, Green, and Company, 1869 - 419 pagine |
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15 Rue Lacépède Abbé ALEXANDRE BERTRAND animals ANTONIO STOPPANI Archæological archæologists BART Bishopmill bones bronze Broomend were found CARL VOGT carvings and sculptures Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye circles cist was observed cists cists at Broomend civilisation coiffures souvent très-habilement Colonel Comte Congress Copen Copenhagen Corr Dolmen EDDERTON EDDERTON IN ROSS-SHIRE EDOUARD EDOUARD DE VERNEUIL EMILIO CORNALIA excavations feet figures fissure Founder France Genista Cave GROUP OF CISTS implements Inst instruments d'un usage Italy kind of interment laborious idleness Lacépède LARTET leaden coffins Liége LL.D LOUIS LARTET Milan monuments Musée Museum Neuchâtel opinion en citant Paris Parma PAUL BROCA Pesth Phoenician Place Saint prehistoric Prof Prussia races of Scotland relics of flint remarks rock rude Rue de Londres Rue de Varenne Sarsden savage Sculptured Stones serpents short cists Sir James Simpson Spectacle Ornament Stones of Scotland symbols Toulouse tribes Turin Tylor unburned bodies Vicomte D'ARCHIAC
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Pagina 166 - It will have blood, they say ; blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Pagina xix - Palaeolithic" period. II. The later or polished Stone Age; a period characterized by beautiful weapons and instruments made of flint and other kinds of stone; in which, however, we find no trace of the knowledge of any metal, excepting gold, which seems to have been sometimes used for ornaments. This we may call the "Neolithic
Pagina 84 - ... are still living in our island. The cave bear, cave lion, and cave hyaena had vanished away, along with a whole group of pachyderms, and of all the extinct animals but one, the Irish elk, still survived.
Pagina 171 - Its diminutive size approximates it to the incense-cup type ; and that it was a mortuary vessel appears from the circumstance that it contained bones which are described as being those ' of an infant or very young child.' It was imbedded in a much larger and ruder urn, filled with fragments of adult human bones ; possibly they may have been the remains of mother and child.
Pagina 73 - Fig 1 Fig 2 Fig 3 Fig 4 Fig 5 Fig 6 Fig 7 Fig 8 Fig 9...
Pagina 27 - Probably of the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century, according to iIr.
Pagina 79 - ... which had the appearance of being made by human hands. The presence of the lower jaws with the skulls indicates that they were deposited in the cavern while the ligaments still bound them together. They were all more or less covered with decaying stalagmite. The outer chamber was remarkable for the absence of earth of any kind, except underneath the hole in the roof, where there was a very little ; while the inner one, running in the same slope, has its lower end entirely blocked up by a fine...
Pagina xix - Assuming then that the use of stone has in all cases preceded the use of metals, it is quite certain that the same Age which was an Age of Stone in one part of the world was an Age of Metal in another. As regards the Eskimo and the South-Sea Islanders we are now, or were very recently, living in a St&ne Age.
Pagina 75 - AT the time man first appeared on the earth, the physical conditions obtaining1 in Western Europe were altogether different from those under which we now live. Britain formed part of the mainland of Europe, and low fertile plains covered with the vegetation peculiar to a moderately severe climate, stretched far away into the Atlantic from the present western coast line. The Thames also, instead of flowing into the German Ocean, joined the Elbe and the Rhine in an estuary opening on the North Sea...
Pagina 4 - ... in width. Their magnitude, however, is less striking than the immense size of the blocks composing them. Some of the stones, of an oblong shape, are from ten to fifteen feet in length, and five or six feet thick. Their sides are quite smooth, but though square, and of pretty regular formation, they bear no mark of the chisel. They are laid together without cement, and here and there show gaps between. The topmost terrace and the lower one are somewhat peculiar in their construction. They have...