The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



No. 28] 1898 [OCTOBER 



EARLY MAN IN SCOTLAND. 1 



By Sir WILLIAM TURNER, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. 



( Contin ued from p. 146.) 



THE association of bronze objects, both with short cists 

 and cinerary urns, establishes these forms of interment as 

 practised at a time when bronze was the characteristic metal 

 used in many purposes of life. The crouching attitude of 

 the dead body, the contracted grave, and the varieties of 

 urns already described, are therefore to be regarded as 

 equally characteristic of this period, even if bronze is not 

 found in a particular instance associated with the interment, 

 and this view is generally held by archaeologists in Scotland. 

 In a preceding paragraph implements and weapons made 

 of stone, flint, and bone were referred to as having been 

 sometimes associated with bronze, and also of similar objects 

 having been found in graves, in which, though obviously of 

 the same class and period, no article made of metal was 

 observed. Such an association proves that there was no 

 sharp line of demarcation between the employment of the 

 more simple substances used by Neolithic man in the 



1- An Address delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on the 26th 

 March 1897. 



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