In the number of its prehistoric remains it is only equalled by parts of Cornwall, and their preservation is owing to thinness of modern population.
There are prehistoric remains at Holne and at Hembury, but it is difficult to think of the past where the present is of such insistent charm.
It here passes the fine trees of Whiddon Park till it comes to a ravine every yard of which seems to be prehistoric dust.
Its rugged turfy surface is scattered with small and large fragments of granite, sometimes "clitters" of weather-worn boulders, sometimes masses that look as though prehistoric giants had been playing at bowls.
It is impossible as well as undesirable to mention all the prehistoric remains that cluster so thickly on the central moorland.
At Bairdown, near Hare Tor, there is a finely-placed monolith or menhir; but the view from Great Lynx Tor is more impressive than any prehistoric remains can be, and includes both the English and the Bristol Channels.
The Erme valley and plains are thickly strewn with prehistoric relics and traces of old tin workings; but, well populated as this district must once have been, it is now one of the most lonely and desolate parts of the moorland.
The advance in methods of working and in mode of living was very slight, and it is quite possible to confuse a rude hut of the medieval tinners with one of prehistoric origin.
He would have yielded in a battle with a pugnacious kitten, but these creatures recognized a prehistoric foe, and would not abide with him.
Strange shapes, immense snakes and reptiles, and nondescript monsters made up of prehistoric legs, teeth, and heads, afflicted his sleep.
You will remember how we played together as children round the temple of Philæ, and let my prehistoric memories of you be my excuse?
There were early muses who employed flint implements and arrow-heads for records, and neglected to clear away the remains of prehistoric meals in caverns.
The study of prehistoricanthropology in Russia, a vast territory, is still in its infancy.
Prehistoric man was guided and controlled by feelings usually expressing the dictates of a long experience out of which instincts had crystallized.
Hence, our scheme is hardly an adequate expression of prehistoric racial groups and their characteristics, except in very general outline.
The growth, development, and training of these remarkable destroyers and rebuilders was slowly going on through the ages of prehistoric time.
The routes of transportation during prehistoric times, as usually in pioneer periods, were mainly along river valleys.
The independence and continuity of popular development is still maintained to-day as throughout prehistoric times.
Many volumes have been written about theprehistoric ruins of Guatemala and especially of Copan.
Antiquarians, deep delvers in the majestic monuments of the long forgotten past, seek in the myths, the traditions, the temples and the ruins the riddles of prehistoric civilization.
Antigua stretches through the beautiful and fertile valley which in the Indian language means dry lake because the tradition exists that in prehistorictimes there was a fine sheet of water covering the land.
They will find also superimposed on the prehistoric Indian civilization the charm of Spanish architecture, customs, character and institutions.
This is a picture of the world of to-day, bound in the silly superstition of some prehistoric nation.
It is indigenous, if not to Ireland, at least to those prehistoric Aryan tribes of which the Irish were a branch.
We spent another five minutes hoisting him aboard a prehistoric plug 125 He may have been fat, but how he could run!
And then after he had consented we spent another five minutes hoisting him aboard a prehistoric plug and telling him how to stick on.
Illustration: We spent another five minutes hoisting him aboard a prehistoric plug Page 125] I guess the Reverend Pubby had never done much in the Centaur line, for he came very near balking entirely right there.
In the Ohio State Historical and Archaeological Museum is a prehistoric fabric (957) containing Tilia and three other species of fiber.
It is apparent that the prehistoric peoples used such fibers as were adapted to their immediate purpose without previous treatment.
This seems to account for the dominance of monocotyledonous fibers in prehistoric collections.
Several general points of interest are apparent from the comparative study of these prehistoric and historic plant materials.
There seems to have been some commercial interchange between the Northern and the Southern tribes, both in historic and prehistoric times.
The plant fibers used by theprehistoric people were rarely if ever treated before utilization, while among the modern Indians a high degree of skill has been attained in the preparation of the fibers before spinning.
Its use was apparently limited only by its distribution, for it was encountered sixteen times in the prehistoric material examined from Kentucky, Arkansas, and Ohio, as well as in historic objects made by the Menomini and Wisconsin Potawatomi.
Among the prehistoricpeoples the purposeful mixing of fibers was the rule.
No specimen was encountered in the prehistoric material, but after its introduction and sale by traders it was the most commonly used fiber.
In other museums prehistoric objects are marked with an asterisk (*).
All the above observations are consistent with the assumption of a steady advance in textile skill and knowledge from prehistoric time to the present.
These conclusions have been drawn from that great class of tradition preserved by historic peoples in historic times, and yet unmistakably pointing to prehistoric culture.
Whatever of traditional custom and belief is capable of bearing the test and of being definitely labelled as belonging to prehistoric man, becomes thereafter the data for the psychical anthropology of civilised man.
But if we have been able to look through the very portals of Christianity to the regions of paganism behind, can we not boldly pass through altogether and recover from folklore much of the lost evidence of our prehistoric ancestors?
The recorded customs and beliefs of early Britain are proved by this means not to be impossible or improbable factors in the elements of the British prehistoric race.
The periods of history in the folk-tales are different from those in the legends, but together these periods reach from prehistoric culture to historic event.
See Schrader, Prehistoric Antiquities of the Aryan Peoples, 253-7.
In the second place, a great proportion of our anthropological material is already to be found in prehistoric Crete.
Thus the theory that Hector is the name of a prehistoric Boeotian local tribe seems to me fantastic.
Thus at the great prehistoric cemetery of Hallstatt in the Austrian Alps, we find weapons of bronze fitted with iron edges, then swords with iron blades and hilts of bronze, then swords of iron, hilt and blade.
It is necessary and right that men's opinions should alter, in consequence of reflection, and of the increase of our knowledge of prehistoric Greece, through the revelations of excavators on the ancient sites of a rediscovered world.
Topographical study of the Greek mainland, and new discoveries of prehistoric sites that had been overlooked, necessarily throw new light on Homer's conception of prehistoric Greece.
One thing is certain, that theprehistoric usage of bride-price almost uniformly prevails in the poems, with a trace of such variations in custom as actually occur, when circumstances or affection demand it, in every stage of human society.
We have not statistics of pigmentation in prehistoric or in historic Greece, or craniological statistics.
Mr. Allen's critical remarks on prehistoric Greek topography and territorial divisions, are most valuable; and so is his account of the Dorian and other pretensions which wrought confusion in topographical designations.
If the views of the reaction, of the believers in Homeric unity, in the epics as the wonderful legacy of the briefprehistoric Achaean age, are to prevail, the opposing ideas must be assailed, and if possible confuted.
I have abjured all attempts to discern the truth about races and languages in prehistoric Greece.
But the prehistoric darkness and uproar are so appalling.
The world at war creates a prehistoric uproar," he said.
If so, then they were driven to the highlands by the cataclysm that in prehistoric ages might have broken up the mainland into islands, leaving only the summits of the mountains visible.
It was like turning back the leaves of history--back to the legendary, prehistoric times.
He is now considering how best to dispose of the evidence continually accumulating respecting the savage condition of prehistoric man.
In these prehistoric delineations, sometimes not without spirit, we have mammoths, combats of reindeer.
There was also a prehistoric settlement, the ruins of which the writer noted as early as 1851, on the school land addition to Taylor's Falls.
The feud between the Sioux and Chippewas originated in prehistoric times and from causes not now known.
How then did prehistoric man come to acquire a totem; that is, how did he come to make his descent from this or that animal foundation of his social duties and, as we shall hear, of his sexual restrictions as well?
If this similarity is more than a deceptive play of accident it would perforce make it possible for us to shed light upon the origin of totemism inprehistoric times.
We know from the examination of the skeletal remains of prehistoric man that the diseases of the bone of thousands of years ago were similar in their manifestations to those same diseases of bone of today.
One wonders what connection this starry-eyed flower could have had with these prehistoric races.
Just behind the talayot, separated from it by certain thick walls, stands another relic of prehistoric times in the shape of a taula, or table stone--one huge slab placed horizontally on the top of a massive upright stone.
It would have been decidedly more comfortable to pass the afternoon indoors, but we were determined to seek some of the countless prehistoric remains with which Minorca is lavishly sprinkled.
Both had something of the monstrous, the uncouth, about them, as if they belonged not to this modern day, but to some prehistoric epoch when Earth moulded her children on more lavish and less graceful lines.
There is not a page of the whole volume but is full of interest, and the many splendid photographs of the existing and prehistoric mammals add greatly to the value of the book.
Whether our second reason prove to be correct or not, we find data here which appear to form connecting links between the prehistoric and the historic times, and hence call for some discussion in regard to the authors.
This ballad is in all probability a remnant of the mythologic traces of a great prehistoric catastrophe, and it illustrates more than any other ancient memorial of the poetic Serbian people, the striking similarity in the beliefs of nations.
Indeed, by their striking analogy with the folk lore of other nations they help to demonstrate the prehistoric oneness of the entire Aryan race.
Footnote 152: Professor Tiele, of Leyden, asserts that "It is altogether erroneous to regard the Egyptian religion as the polytheistic degeneration of a prehistoric monotheism.
