The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 28
fmetals. The phase of human history onwhich we are now touching is markedby two innovations of the highestimportance: the culture of cerealsand the do-mestication ofanimals. Car-bonised cerealsand heaps ofmanure havebeen found inthe mud of thelake-dwellings,and it is morethan probablethat the… … FIG. 8.—CARVED MENHIR.PRIMITFVE STATUE. (Saint Scrnin, Aveyron.) THE STORY OF ART THROUGHOUT THE AGES and flax; it will be sufficient to pointout that these immense advances incivilisation were made before the dis-covery of metals. The construction of lake-dwellingsand of dolmens continued even…
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