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CHAPTER IV. 



THE USE OF STONE IN ANCIENT TIMES. 



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The great abundance of stone implements Stone implements used 

 after the discovery of metal Materials preferred Jade Flint 

 Grimes' Graves Pressigny The fracture of flint Modern 

 flakes Manufacture offtakes in Mexico, and among the Esqui- 

 maux Ancient manufactories Stone axes Pierced hatchets- 

 Scrapers Shell-mound axes Chisels Awls Spears Daggers 

 -Sling-stones Arrow-heads Saws Bone implements Awls 

 -Harpoons Flint finds ........ 79 



CHAPTER V. 



MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS AND TUMULI. 



Tumuli Menhirs Stone circles Mention of stone circles and 

 tumuli in ancient history Megalithic monuments not Druidical 

 Abury Silbury Hill more ancient than the Roman road- 

 Stonehenge Carnac Megalithicmonuments in India Modern 

 Indian dolmens Modes of burial in tumuli Use of tumuli as 

 dwellings --Yurts and gammes Hut -burial among modern 

 savages Picts' houses The mound-builders Long barrows 

 Objects buried with the dead not always intended for actual use 

 -List of interments Tabulated interments Statistics Models 

 of implements sometimes buried Barrows belong to very dif- 

 ferent periods Difficulty of determining the period to which 

 a tumulus belongs Danish tumulus in the Island of Moen 

 Description of a barrow at West Kennet Pottery from the 

 West Kennet tumulus Breton tumuli Sepulchral pottery- 

 Rock sculptures Bones of animals in tumuli Sepulchral feasts 

 -Sacrifices Pre-historic races of men Desirability of pre- 

 serving megalithic monuments . . . . . . . 113 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE ANCIENT LAKE-HABITATIONS OF SWITZERLAND. 



Lake-dwellings mentioned by Herodotus Modern Lake-dwellings 

 Irish crannoges Pile-dwellings in other parts of Europe 

 Lake-dwellings found in most of the Swiss lakes Attempt to 

 make a census Construction of the platforms Comparison of 

 Lake-dwellings of different periods Condition of the objects 



