tailieunhanh - Camps, Fortifications, Vitrified Forts; Santorin; The Towns upon the Hill of Hissarlik

Combativeness, to use the language of phrenology, is one of the most lively instincts of humanity. The Bible tells us of the struggle between the sons of Adam, and shows us might making right ever since the days of primeval man. History is but one long account of wars and conquests, victories or defeats, and progress is chiefly marked in inventions which made battles more sanguinary and added to the number of victims slaughtered. At the very dawn of humanity man learned to make weapons; very soon, however, weapons ceased to appear sufficient. The first fortification was doubtless the. | Camps Fortifications Vitrified Forts Santorin The Towns upon the Hill of Hissarlik Combativeness to use the language of phrenology is one of the most lively instincts of humanity. The Bible tells us of the struggle between the sons of Adam and shows us might making right ever since the days of primeval man. History is but one long account of wars and conquests victories or defeats and progress is chiefly marked in inventions which made battles more sanguinary and added to the number of victims slaughtered. At the very dawn of humanity man learned to make weapons very soon however weapons ceased to appear sufficient. The first fortification was doubtless the cave which its owner strengthened by closing the entrance with blocks of stone and piles of broken rock or by digging deep trenches about it. Population rapidly increased and war was declared between tribe and tribe nation and nation race and race. Terrible must have been the struggles between invaders and the original possessors of the soil. Means of defence were multiplied to keep pace with new modes of attack and our ancestors of the Stone age were intelligent enough to make places of refuge in which on necessity they could shelter their wives and page 280children and later when they became sedentary their flocks and their stores of grain. In many different localities we find the remains of camps and fortifications which to avoid using a more ambitious term we may characterize generally as These primitive enclosures says Bertrand in his Archéologie Celtiquc et Gauloise may have been very much more numerous than is supposed if we include amongst them as it appears we ought many ruins long thought to date from the Roman era. There is no doubt as to the purpose served by the camps but we are not prepared to speak as positively as does Bertrand as to their origin and the difficulty of deciding is very greatly increased on account of these camps having been successively occupied at different epochs by