Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . earheads, arrow- heads, javelinpoints, daggers, poniards,many varieties of cutting instrumentsafter the general pattern of the knife,scrapers, picks, many kinds of hatchets,sling-stones, weight-stones for nets andfishing lines, harpoons, awls, lapstones,and an infinity of the so-called all the varieties here enumeratedcan be seen in any ordinary museum ofantiquities, and the beholder, by theirinspect
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . earheads, arrow- heads, javelinpoints, daggers, poniards,many varieties of cutting instrumentsafter the general pattern of the knife,scrapers, picks, many kinds of hatchets,sling-stones, weight-stones for nets andfishing lines, harpoons, awls, lapstones,and an infinity of the so-called all the varieties here enumeratedcan be seen in any ordinary museum ofantiquities, and the beholder, by theirinspection, can but feel himself drawnnear to the prehistoric race of men bywhose hands these implements werewielded. It is not intended in the present workto enter into the details of is not even the purpose Manner of lifeto give any elaborate ac- ^houtand fe J -within the man count of the slow transfor- caverns,mation by which the tribes of the oldstone age passed by evolution into thenew stone age and thence into the ageof bronze. It is sufficient to notethat the general manner of life of thecave men and their contemporaries wasthat of hunters and fishermen, men of. FIXE PALEOLITHIC ARROWPOIXTS. the woods and stream. Doubtless it wouldbe improper to speak of the social sys-tem of a people that had no society atall. The cave dwelling would seem toindicate an exceedingly solitary life. Itappears that in the case of the largercaverns quite a band of the barbarians 306 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. lived together. The abundance of bonesand ivlics is much greater than we shouldexpect in the ease of a single family or j
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