. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. APTER )e (0arl|) $nl)al)itante; of tl)e Bnti^I) Jslautisi, The ages before written records—Nature of tbe evidence to be relied upon—The men of roughstone implements, contemporary with the Mammoth—Dwellers in caves, valleys, and forests—The earliest race probably long-headed—The old Cave-dwellers; who carved horns—Rudeweapons—Bone needles and harpoons—Mode of cooking and d
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. APTER )e (0arl|) $nl)al)itante; of tl)e Bnti^I) Jslautisi, The ages before written records—Nature of tbe evidence to be relied upon—The men of roughstone implements, contemporary with the Mammoth—Dwellers in caves, valleys, and forests—The earliest race probably long-headed—The old Cave-dwellers; who carved horns—Rudeweapons—Bone needles and harpoons—Mode of cooking and drinking—Clothing and orna-ments—Portraits of animals on ivory and horn—Human bones—Supposed relation to theEsquimaux—The Age of Polished Stone Implements—Advent of agricultural tribes skilledin arts—Physical characters—Picture of a homestead in early Britain—Domestic animals—Crops—Implement-making—Change of climate—Burial mounds—The Age of Bronze—Firstappearance of the Aryan Celt in|Europe—Survivals from the Bronze period in Ireland—Fortsor raths—Crannoges—The British Celts—Bronze weapons—Clothing and ornaments—Cre-mation—Stonehenge and Avebury tlie first inhabitants of theseand how long have they been HO wereislands ?inhabited ? The answers to these questions depend,not upon historic records in writing, but uponother evidence which scientific men accept asequal in value to written documents,^^^^^^ ^^ ^^sometimes superior to them, becausedocuments may be as false as humanspeech, while a record of nature, if rightly read,may be relied upon as a fact. We must always remember, however, the 19 evidencerelied upon. THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE. qualifying clause, if rightly read, for verj^ much turns upon this. Butwe are not likely to go back to the view some people formerly held, thatfossils and other records of ancient life upon the globe were merely sportsof nature, or a kind of imitation of living things ; or t
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