Christian faith in an age of science . hese stages of culture correspond to chron-ological divisions only within the limits of some oneparticular district of country. Centuries after the Eu-ropean populations had entered upon the iron age, theinhabitants of North America and of Australia werestill in the stone age. When the remains of man associated with the bonesof extinct mammals were brought to light, it was ob-vious, of course, that they belonged to the stone age,but it was equally obvious that they represented astage of culture vastly lower than that indicated by thelater relics of the st
Christian faith in an age of science . hese stages of culture correspond to chron-ological divisions only within the limits of some oneparticular district of country. Centuries after the Eu-ropean populations had entered upon the iron age, theinhabitants of North America and of Australia werestill in the stone age. When the remains of man associated with the bonesof extinct mammals were brought to light, it was ob-vious, of course, that they belonged to the stone age,but it was equally obvious that they represented astage of culture vastly lower than that indicated by thelater relics of the stone age. It became obvious, infact, that the stages of culture represented by the ear- 62 Neolithic and Paleolithic Man liest and the latest relics of the stone age differed morewidely from each other than that of the later stoneage differed from that of the age of bronze. It be-came necessary, then, to divide the stone age into twoperiods, which were named appropriately the neolithicand the paleolithic—the new stone age and the old. Fig. 6.—Paleolithic implements. From Evans Ancient StoneImplements of Great Britain. stone age. Paleolithic men made implements of stoneonly by chipping (see Fig. 6). In those localitieswhich probably represent the earliest part of the pale-olithic age, the implements are generally of very rudeform. In later paleolithic time more skill had beendeveloped, and some of the implements were mostartistically shaped, but the process was essentiallythe same. Neolithic men had found that chisels and 6^ The Antiquity of Man gouges and similar implements could be shaped to anicer and more uniform edge by grinding than by chip-ping, and accordingly such implements in neolithictime were ground and polished (see Fig. 7). Time was not as precious in thestone age as in the age ofrailroads and telegraphs;but time was worth some-thing even to neolithic man,and he did not waste time
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