The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . of early man are now wholly extinct, like thehuge mammoth, the fierce cave-bear, and the terrible saber-toothed , however, find skeletons of these animals, corresponding closeljwith the drawings of prehistoric artists. §2] STEPS IN PROGRESS mains are found in caves, where primitive man made his home;sometimes, in refuse heaps where he cast the remnants fromhis food; sometimes in the gravel of old river beds where hefished. As a rule in such deposits, the lowest layers of soilcontain the rudest sort of tools, while higher la
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . of early man are now wholly extinct, like thehuge mammoth, the fierce cave-bear, and the terrible saber-toothed , however, find skeletons of these animals, corresponding closeljwith the drawings of prehistoric artists. §2] STEPS IN PROGRESS mains are found in caves, where primitive man made his home;sometimes, in refuse heaps where he cast the remnants fromhis food; sometimes in the gravel of old river beds where hefished. As a rule in such deposits, the lowest layers of soilcontain the rudest sort of tools, while higher layers containsimilar remains some-what less the study of manythousands of these de-posits, scholars havelearned how one tool de-veloped out of anothersimpler one, and havebeen able to trace manyof the steps by whichman rose from study, then, givesus a series of picturesof the life of primitiveman; but we cannot geta continuous story fromit. It is quite apartfrom history. All thisearly time, until manbegins to leave writteii. records of his life, is Prehistoric Stone Daggers fromScandinavia. called prehistoric. 2. Prehistoric time is conveniently divided into the Old Stone Age, the New Stone Age, and the Bronze Age, according to the material from which tools were made. In the first period, arrow heads and knives were pieces of flint merely chipped roughly to give them a sort of edge. The New Stone Age begins when men learned to give these stone weapons a truer edge and more polished form by grinding them with other stones. The men of this age possessed flocks and herds. They knew how to till the soil, to spin and weave, to make PREHISTORIC AGES [§2 pottery and decorate it, and in some places, before the close ofthe long period, to build cities with immense palaces andtemples of stone or sun-baked brick. Commonly they buriedtheir dead with food and tools in the grave. This indicatesthat they had come to believe in a future life, somewhat likethe one on
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