The stone, bronze and iron ages : a popular treatise on early archaeology / by John Hunter-Duvar.

  • John Hunter-Duvar
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1892
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Credit: The stone, bronze and iron ages : a popular treatise on early archaeology / by John Hunter-Duvar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cutting-edge such as the “celts,” or stone axes of later years had, leaving room for a fair inference that men’s habitations in earliest time were not put together by building, but continued to be mere “rock shelters,’ or boughs of trees leaned against the face of a cliff. It may be mentioned that no trace of fire has been detected on any of the drift relics, but it cannot be argued from Fie, 3. Smallest drift flint, Fic. 4. Large neolithic arrow-head, 4 inches in length. 12 inch in length. absence of fire-mark on these water-worn stones that fire was not used in preparing food. A race habitually dwelling on the edge of running rivers that were liable to floods could not remain ignorant of the floating properties of wood, but from the necessity of following their game from one side of a stream to the other, the human beings of the time would certainly be expert swimmers. Being so, in their nomad life of short journeyings after the game they pursued they would
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