The past in the present: what is civilisation? (1880)
Mitchell, Arthur, Sir, 1826-1909 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 53
hen, was a woman, living in a wretched and perish-able hut, built without cement of unquarried and unshapedstones, busily manufacturing just such pottery as was madeby the early prehistoric inhabitants of Scotland,—just suchpottery as is now made by some of the most degraded savagesin the world;… … Fig. 24.—Barvas Pottery ; 5 inches high. on the spot disclose a century hence ?—her bones, her whorl,her quern, and her craggans. That Sheffield, Manchester,
Archaeology · Civilization
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