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warrior was buried with his favorite weapons ; gradually the inevitable 

 tendency of ceremonies, or possibly a dim sense that axes and knives 

 were more useful to the living than the dead, caused an alteration 

 of the custom, and small models of the weapons were buried instead 

 of tlyg weapons themselves. 



r ^ same thing has been observed by M. Boucher de Perthes, 

 Galley of the Somme. Pie has discovered in the peat some 

 i places belonging probably to the Bronze age, and he supposes 

 tu. it was customary for every one who attended the funeral, to 

 cast some offering on the grave as a token of respect to the departed. 

 Of these rude flints M. Boucher de Perthes possesses a great collec- 

 tion, and it is evident that they were never intended to be of any 

 actual use. Mr. Franks, of the British Museum, informs me that 

 much of the jewellery found in Etruscan tombs is so thin that it 

 could not have been worn during life ; and in Egyptian graves also 

 models occur, instead of the weapons or implements themselves. 



M. Worsaae is of opinion that there is sufficient evidence to in- 

 dicate the separation of the Danish Stone age into two periods. 

 However this may be, the remains found near Amiens and Abbeville, 

 seem to me to justify our doing so, at least as regards France, but 

 we did not see in Copenhagen any Danish flint weapons at all re- 

 sembling the older forms from the gravels capping the hills on each 

 side of the valley of the Somme, nor have any flint weapons of this 

 type as yet been found in Ireland. 



It is manifestly impossible to affix a date in years to the forma- 

 tion of the Kjokkenmoddings, which, nevertheless are, as evidently, 

 of immense antiquity. We have seen that at the time of the Romans 

 the country was, as now, covered by beech forests, and yet we know 

 that during the Bronze age, beeches were absent, or only represented 

 by a few stragglers, while the whole country was covered with oaks. 

 This change implies a great lapse of time, even if we suppose that 

 but a few generations of oaks succeeded one another. We know 

 also that the oaks had been preceded by pines, and that the country 

 was inhabited even then. 



Again, the immense number of objects belonging to the Bronze 

 age which have been found in Denmark from time to time, and the 

 great number of burial places, appear to justify the Danish Archaeo- 

 logists in assigning to this period a very great lapse of time. The 

 same arguments apply with even more strength to the remains of the 

 Stone period, as a country the inhabitants of which live by hunting 

 and fishing can never be thickly populated ; and, on the whole, the 

 conclusion is forced upon us, that the country must have been inhabi- 

 ted several thousand years before the Christian Era. 



On the other hand no flint implements have yet been found in 

 Denmark, which resemble those occurring in the drift near Amiens, 

 Abbeville, and elsewhere. Not only, however, the great differences 

 in the workmanship, but also the absence of any trace of the Elephant 

 or Ehinoceros, with the human remains in Denmark, and their well 

 attested presence in France, in the same strata with the flint imple- 



