BULLETIIV 



OF 



THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM 



Vol. 9 CHARLESTON, S. C, NOVEMBER, 1913 No. 7 



THE STONE AGE EXHIBIT 



Since the issue of the last number of the Bulletin the arche- 

 ological material presented by Mr. H. W. Seton-Karr, illustra- 

 tive of the Stone Age in India and in Egypt, has been installed 

 in one of the temporary table cases now placed on the north side 

 of the main hall near the South Carolina Game and Land Bird 

 Collection. The exhibit includes also material presented last 

 winter by Dr. D. S. Martin, representative of the Stone Age in 

 Europe. The whole forms an interesting series which will be 

 particularly helpful to teachers of ancient history as well as to 

 the general public. 



The Stone Age is the name applied to that period in the devel- 

 opment of man when all his weapons and utensils are formed of 

 either stone, horn, or bone. The first evidences of man's exis- 

 tence show him in the Stone Age, yet the term is without chron- 

 ological significance, as races still exist which have not developed 

 beyond its limitations. The natives of Tasmania, the last of 

 whom died only in 1876, were examples of the most primitive 

 type of the Stone Age. Their implements were of roughly chip- 

 ped stone, to the careless eye merely broken rocks. Even the 

 bow and arrow was unknown to them, a club serving as their 

 chief weapon. 



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