The author puts forward no extravagant assumptions, and the method he points out for the comparative study of folk-lore seems to promise a considerable extension of knowledge as to prehistoric times.
When, therefore, the country was covered with forests, as it was in prehistoric times, the accumulation must have proceeded with considerable rapidity.
We cannot here attempt to present, even in outline, all the complex ethnological arguments for and against the existence in prehistoric times of European pygmy races.
This is a remarkable fact as showing that the astronomies of Egypt and Chaldaea were not borrowed one from the other, but evolved independently in prehistoric times.
It is evidently a development on Egyptian soil, in prehistoric times, of the picture-writing of a primitive period.
Accordingly we have now only the very much altered and revised vestiges of that spoken literature of prehistoric times.
Some of the amber districts of the Baltic and North Sea were known in prehistoric times, and led to early trade with the south of Europe.
The truth was indeed obscured for a time by persistent prejudices in favour of certain alien Mediterranean races long known to have been in relation with the Aegean area in prehistoric times, e.
Here a scholar of reputation gives the strongest kind of evidence in a belief that overland routes of travel were in existence and were employed in prehistoric times--by incidentally referring to them while discussing another question.
It is surely significant that a modern road should pass so near the very track which evidently was a highway in prehistoric times.
Thus of the fourteen most thickly populated states today perhaps twelve give fair evidence of having been most thickly populated in prehistoric times.
The history of this plague extends almost to prehistoric times.
Leprosy is distinctly a malady of Oriental origin, and existed inprehistoric times in Egypt and Judea.
For the discoveries by McEnery and Godwin Austin, see Lubbock, Prehistoric Times, London, 1869, chap.
For comparison of this prehistoric work with that produced to-day by the Eskimos and others, see Lubbock, Prehistoric Times, chapters x and xiv.
Their capacity was increased in prehistoric times by the construction of dams.
Kukuchomo marks the site of a settlement, of the Coyote clan of the Hopi in prehistoric times.
The peoples of the other races have remained savage or barbarian, like the men of prehistoric times.
Theoretically this gens had been in prehistoric times one of the familiae, "households," whose union for political purposes had formed the state.
Besides the olive and the grape, the apple, pear, plum, and quince were either native to Italy or were introduced in prehistoric times.
In Algeria have been preserved some most interesting relics of prehistoric times.
One serious objection, however, is this: Were the Irish sufficiently advanced in prehistoric times to be able to erect dwellings implying so considerable an amount of civilization?
The lead weights so indispensable to fishermen of the present day for sinking the nets, were represented in prehistoric times by stones.
There is nothing to prevent our believing that similar methods were in use in prehistoric times.
The diagram in the text is from this work on Archæology, and shows the variety of jewels in use in prehistoric times.
Rings have also been found which are believed to date back to prehistoric times.
These became places for the throwing of useless and broken articles used in the household, and thus have been the means of preserving many of the implements used in prehistoric times.
The five grains, so called, are often referred to, and are specially mentioned in the Shintō rituals, whose origin goes back to prehistoric times.
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