. Archæology and false antiquities. Figs. 60, 61. Churinga of the Arunta Tribe, Central Australia as component elements of their ornamentation. In afew instances there are incomplete circles round someof the perforations and so-called cup-marks; but themain decorations consist of plain, hollow dots, or cups,and cup-and-ring marks connected by gutter Clyde amulets are neither strictly oval, nor sym-metrical, nor well finished, being generally water-worn 248 ARCHAEOLOGY AND FALSE ANTIQUITIES fragments of shale or of clay state, of different shapes,as shown on figure 63. But waiving
. Archæology and false antiquities. Figs. 60, 61. Churinga of the Arunta Tribe, Central Australia as component elements of their ornamentation. In afew instances there are incomplete circles round someof the perforations and so-called cup-marks; but themain decorations consist of plain, hollow dots, or cups,and cup-and-ring marks connected by gutter Clyde amulets are neither strictly oval, nor sym-metrical, nor well finished, being generally water-worn 248 ARCHAEOLOGY AND FALSE ANTIQUITIES fragments of shale or of clay state, of different shapes,as shown on figure 63. But waiving the question of the similarity of theAustralian and Clyde objects, a careful study of the fol-lowing hypothesis will show the inherent futility ofattempting to correlate the art products of any race. Fig. 62. Churinga of Slate from the Arunta Tribe,Central Australia (|) of people in the early Iron Age, either in the Clyde orany other district in the British Isles, with those of theprimitive races of Australia. The only possible way ofaccounting for the existence among them of common artor religious elements would be to trace them throughprehistoric sources, reasoning somewhat as follows : — (i) At a time prior to the rise of modern civilisationthe inhabitants of the Old World were savages. (2) From this archaic stratum of humanity some tribes THE DISPUTED OBJECTS 249 found their way to the West of Scotland, and others toAustralia. (3) Their divergence from the common stock took placebefore the rise of the civilisations of the Greeks, Egyptians,and Babylonians, that is, at least 5000 (4) The immigrants to the Clyde became graduallymore civilised while still retainingreminiscences of their primitivecult. (5) At a time subsequent to400 ,1 long after the Neolithicperiod cam
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