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 44
itdoes not do to attach undue importance to isolatedfacts, recent discoveries in the Cevennes, in Spain, inHungary, and elsewhere, appear to confirm the exist-ence of an age of cojjper (Fig. 2). We may add thatthe mounds of North America contain none but copperimplements and ornaments, witnesses of… … Fig. 3.—Copper beads, from Connetts Mound, Ohio (natural size). centuries, and we find it still prevailing amongst certainraces who set their faces against all progress. Thescenes sculptured upon Egyptian monuments datingfrom the ancient Empire represent the employment ofstone weapons, and their…
Archaeology
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