. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Fig. ;t.— Irwe qf the Bronze Age. discovered the uses of fire, the first need was of vessels which could beused upon the fire to seethe and what do we find \ THE STOXE AGE. 15 The Heindeer Age—the Stone Age.—Of prehistoric times, wlieiithe reindeer roved free over Europe, even to the sliores of the Medi-terranean, in the Stone age, even when man hved in caves and wasonly able to fashion things with stones, a few pots have been found,showing how early his wants led him to fashion things of Fi
. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Fig. ;t.— Irwe qf the Bronze Age. discovered the uses of fire, the first need was of vessels which could beused upon the fire to seethe and what do we find \ THE STOXE AGE. 15 The Heindeer Age—the Stone Age.—Of prehistoric times, wlieiithe reindeer roved free over Europe, even to the sliores of the Medi-terranean, in the Stone age, even when man hved in caves and wasonly able to fashion things with stones, a few pots have been found,showing how early his wants led him to fashion things of Fig. 4.— Vase of the Bronze Age. The Lacustrine Dwellings of the Stone Age have given up a fewtraces of men. The remains of lake-dwellers have been found mostlyin Switzerland, but somewhat in Ireland and Scotland. These reveal apeople who built their huts for safety upon piles or upon fascines an-chored in the small lakes. A variety of interesting things, consisting ofspear-heads, knives, hatchets, etc., have been found, some of flint, some
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