Pre-historic times, as illustrated by ancient remains and the manners and customs of modern savages (1892)
Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 379
or, if we look at the question from a sci-entific point of view, is there anything in this that ought toexcite our astonishment. Since the period at which thesecaves were filled up, the changes which have taken placehave resulted rather in the extinction than in the creation ofspecies. The stag,… … ( 341 ) CHAPTEE XL RIVER-DRIFT GRAVEL-BEDS. TTTHILE we have been straining our eyes to the East, andT T eagerly watching excavations in Egypt and Assyria,suddenly a new light has arisen in the midst of us; and theoldest relics of man yet discovered have occurred, not amongthe ruins of Nineveh or…
Archaeology · Indigenous peoples
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