Old village life; or, Glimpses of village life through all ages . mmigrants in all inhabitedregions of the earth. Professor Elliot Smith andDr. Rivers have discovered definite evidence of awidespread movement of people who built thesegreat stone structures wherever they went.^ Theseare found along the shores of the Mediterranean,in Western Asia, Egypt, Oceania, India, Indonesia,etc., as well as in our islands. These monumentsare of various kinds: The menhir^ is a tall roughpillar with the base fixed in the earth. The tri-lithon is a pair of tall stones set a short distanceapart supporting a th
Old village life; or, Glimpses of village life through all ages . mmigrants in all inhabitedregions of the earth. Professor Elliot Smith andDr. Rivers have discovered definite evidence of awidespread movement of people who built thesegreat stone structures wherever they went.^ Theseare found along the shores of the Mediterranean,in Western Asia, Egypt, Oceania, India, Indonesia,etc., as well as in our islands. These monumentsare of various kinds: The menhir^ is a tall roughpillar with the base fixed in the earth. The tri-lithon is a pair of tall stones set a short distanceapart supporting a thiid stone laid across the top,such as you can see at Stonehenge. The dolmenis a sort of stone table, a large single stone slab beingsupported by several others, so as to form a chambersimilar to the sepulchral cist which I have alreadydescribed. The alignment is a series of menhirsarranged in open line so as to form a row or boundary 1 The Megalithic Culture of Indonesia, by W. J. Perry, p. 2. 2 The word is derived from the Celtic men, a stone, and hir,tall. 24. -t
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