Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ternFrance or Great Britian, of implementsor other relics belonging to the period PRIMEVAL MAN.—MEN OF THE TUMULI. 337 of the Roman ascendency, and in onlya few cases have the discoveries carriedthe antiquary back to a period more re-mote than that of the age of bronze. We may for a moment consider thefacts before us from a higher point ofDiverse meth- view. The tumuli of the ods of races re- British Isles are onl
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ternFrance or Great Britian, of implementsor other relics belonging to the period PRIMEVAL MAN.—MEN OF THE TUMULI. 337 of the Roman ascendency, and in onlya few cases have the discoveries carriedthe antiquary back to a period more re-mote than that of the age of bronze. We may for a moment consider thefacts before us from a higher point ofDiverse meth- view. The tumuli of the ods of races re- British Isles are only one ofspectmg death J and burial. several kinds of receptacle for the prehistoric dead. The palaeolithicand neolithic ages, as well as the age of life the fact of death impressed the livingmore seriously than any other phenome-non whatsoever. This led, even in thelowest stages of barbarism, to the insti-tution of rites and ceremonies connectedwith the final putting away of the was one of the points at which theprimitive tribes easily diverged in theircustoms and methods. There was fromthe first a contest of belief as to the bestmanner of disposing of the dead. One. FUNERAL IN THE PALEOLITHIC AGE.—Drawn by Emile Bayard. bronze, had their burial places, funerals,and rude theories of death. Barbarismdeveloped into several forms of burialmethod according to the locality and thesituation. The manner of disposing ofthe dead was, indeed, one of the moststriking features of the barbaric life. Itwould appear that from the earliestemergence of man into the conscious plan was to reduce the body to ashes,and another was to preserve it in somesituation where it might be protectedfrom disturbance and, we might say,sacrilege; for we may well believe thatamong the primal instincts of savagesone of the first of those sentiments whichtend to the elevation of mankind wasrespect for the body. 338 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. Throughout primitive Europe the evi-dences of aboriginal burial
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