Manners and monuments of prehistoric peoples (1892)
Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de, 1818-1904, D'Anvers, N., d. 1933 · New York, London : G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 386
a tree which still contained the bonesthat had been placed in it. Similar discoveries weremade in the Cher, and in the celebrated cemetery ofHallstadt, near Salzburg. The cairns of Scania cov-ered over split trunks of oak and birch trees, whichhad been hoUow^ed out to receive the dead. At… … 364 PREHISTORIC PEOPLES. Hove, in Sussex, tlie latter containing a splendid am-ber cup, evidence of the wealth of the man who hadbeen buried in this primitive coffin/ The ancient Caledonians sewed up their dead in theskins of oxen before burying them. The Egyptiansalso embalmed the ibis, the ox,…
Archaeology
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