Still earlier we find traces of man, in implements, such as are used by the ruder savages at the present day.
Perhaps there is a still earlier allusion in the "giving of food for the dead" spoken of in Deuteronomy (xxvi.
The justice of this observation must be admitted, no less than the further remark that, in still earlier times, the pastoral Hebrews very probably had yet more restricted notions of what constituted the "whole earth.
It seems probable further, that when descent was changed to the male line, or still earlier, animal names for the gentes were laid aside and personal names substituted in their place.
The family, which had probably attained the syndyasmian form, was still environed with the remains of that conjugal system which belonged to a still earlier condition.
Plato undoubtedly was familiar with Hellenic and Pelasgian traditions not known to us, which reached far back into the period of barbarism, and revealed traces of a still earlier condition of the Grecian tribes.
But Mr. Tytler and the editor of the State Papers appear to have overlooked a still earlier indication of the coming crime, in Sadler's Papers.
Let us suppose a youth to have attained his legal majority, or, perhaps, by his father's will, declared of age at a still earlier period.
For though faith has its root in the present, still, in every case, it looks backward to some past, whether of an extant or still earlier revelation, which at the same time it embraces and adopts into itself.
These likewise point to a still earlierconvulsion of nature, to which they owed their first production.
A still earlier piece, probably cast about the year 1600, is an oblong Sussex back deeply recessed, on which is the arms of John Blount, Earl of Devonshire, another bearing the Royal arms of the Tudor period.
This method of cure had already been advised by a still earlier writer, that is, by Avicenna.
The so-called "Azoic" rocks have already been made to yield evidence of life, and there is no reason to presuppose the impossibility of finding other records of still earlier organisms.
At a still earlier date in Syria the same had been done in the Propylaea of the temple at Damascus (A.
Excavations have shown that the plan was probably suggested by a still earlier church in which five tomb-niches surrounded the central apse and tomb of St Martin.
These are all anonymous; but most of them are generally believed to belong to the tenth century, while a few may really have been composed in Norway at a still earlier date.
At all events it is clear that, with the exception of Thórgerðr and Irpa, all the deities whose worship is attested were known beyond Norway, and that most of them can be traced back to the Heroic Age or still earlier times.
The story of Offa and his father Wermund must be referred to a still earlier period if we are to trust the evidence of the Mercian genealogy in which these persons figure.
And that this applied to land in villenage as well as to land in demesne is clear from a still earlier law of King Edgar (A.
There is still earlier evidence of the prevalence of the system of food-rents where we should little expect to find it, viz.
It explains how the possession of the oxen came to be in Saxon, as probably in still earlier British or Roman times, the key to the position of the holder, and his rank in the hierarchy of the village community.
And though the text of the translation may not be earlier than the tenth century, yet, as the meaning of words does not change suddenly, it shows that the military service of the thane dated from a still earlier period.
Still earlier in 1843, as Roach Smith pointed out in Collectanea Antiqua (vol.
In pursuing the sequence of implements from the Mousterian back to still earlier types, cave-hunting will as a rule provide one step only, though this is of the greatest value.
Passing beyond these, a few fragments remain to suggest a still earlier stage in evolution.
And lastly, that in a still earlier period of life, their arteries should run and branch as in a fish, to carry the blood to gills which do not exist.
At a still earlier there is no difference between fish, bird, &c.
The sarcophagus-graves and pot-burials which he came across when cutting his tunnels and trenches are clearly contemporaneous with those at Abû Hatab, and the mound may well contain still earlier remains.
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