tailieunhanh - Industry, Commerce, and Social Organization; Fights, Wounds and Trepanation

When we consider the discoveries connected with the Stone age as a whole, we are struck with the immense numbers of weapons of every kind and of every variety of form found in different regions of the globe. The Roman domination extended over a great part of the Old World, and it lasted for many centuries. Everywhere this people, illustrious amongst the nations, has left tokens of its power and of its industry. Roman weapons, jewelry, and coins occupy considerable spaces in our museums; but numerous as are these relics of the Romans, they are far inferior in number. | Industry Commerce and Social Organization Fights Wounds and Trepanation When we consider the discoveries connected with the Stone age as a whole we are struck with the immense numbers of weapons of every kind and of every variety of form found in different regions of the globe. The Roman domination extended over a great part of the Old World and it lasted for many centuries. Everywhere this people illustrious amongst the nations has left tokens of its power and of its industry. Roman weapons jewelry and coins occupy considerable spaces in our museums but numerous as are these relics of the Romans they are far inferior in number to the objects dating from prehistoric times and flints worked by the hand of man have been picked up by thousands in the last few years forming incontestable witnesses of the rapid growth of a large population. One important point remains obscure. Schmerling has excavated fifty caves in Belgium and only found human relics in two or three of them and of six hundred explored by Lund in Brazil only six contained human bones. Similar results were obtained in the excavations of the mounds of North America as well as in the caves of France. M. Hamy in a book published a few years ago only mentions twelve finds of human bones which could without any doubt be page 232dated from Paleolithic times. True this number has been added to by recent discoveries but it is still quite insignificant. It is the same thing with the kitchen-middings and the Lake settlements. This paucity of actual human remains forms a gap in the evidence relating to prehistoric man which disturbances and displacements do not sufficiently account for and to which we shall refer again when speaking of prehistoric tombs. Worked flints are generally found in numbers in one place probably formerly a station or centre of human habitation. Men were beginning to form themselves into societies and the dwellings first of the family and then of the tribe rapidly gathered together near some