Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . in Paris, and said, These stones are very old; they are as old as the ground in which they lay. They were shaped by men who knew very little and had very little, and who used them for weapons. Near the stone weapons were these, bones of the mammoth and the rhinoceros. So those animals lived at the time the men did, and in this country. The learned men listened, but did not believe what he said. A few years after that, however—about twenty years—other shaped stones were found on the banks of the river that flows by the great city of Lo
Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . in Paris, and said, These stones are very old; they are as old as the ground in which they lay. They were shaped by men who knew very little and had very little, and who used them for weapons. Near the stone weapons were these, bones of the mammoth and the rhinoceros. So those animals lived at the time the men did, and in this country. The learned men listened, but did not believe what he said. A few years after that, however—about twenty years—other shaped stones were found on the banks of the river that flows by the great city of London, in England, across the narrow water from France. Andin Denmark, another country nearFrance, still more shaped stones werefound, and, with them, bones of thereindeer. Then the learned men had to be-lieve that men who shaped stones oncelived in England and France and Den-mark ; and that at the same time livedthe mammoth, the rhinoceros, and the reindeer; and that the men had very little and knew very little, and made the shaped stones for 198 A HEADER FOR THE FIFTH GRADE Soon after this, chipped stones were found all theworld over. More than that, there were people livingwho still were chipping them. The Eskimos, who livein the frozen north of our own country, make theirweapons of stone. So you see that by the Age of Stone is meant a timewhen the metals, tin and copper and iron, were notknown; and when stone, horn, bone, shell, and woodwere used for tools and weapons. The cave men werein the Stone Age long ago. The Eskimos are in theStone Age now. And the American red men, thoughthey were still in the Stone Age, were beginning tolearn the use of one metal, copper. And the people of the shell mounds—how do weknow about them? In Denmark to-day you may seeshell mounds. They are the old hunting and fishingvillages. They are of different sizes; some are aquarter of a mile long and half as wide. They arebuilt up of things that the hunters and fishermen threwaway:
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