STUDY OF HIGH ANTIQUITY. 317 



PROGRAMME OF THE COURSE OF LECTURES BY M. MORLOT 

 AT THE ACADEMY OF LAUSANNE. 



Introductory Lecture. 



What is mcaut by the study of liigli antiquity. — History of the science. — 

 MMrs. Thomson and Nilssou. — Their three ages : of the stone, of the bronze, 

 of the iron. — The method to be followed : Ethnography; the style; associa- 

 tion ; superposition. — Chronology ; the delta of the Tiniere. — End and practi- 

 cal use of the science. 



Lecture II. 



The stone age iti ike North. — The peat bogs in Denmark show three periods 

 of the forest : the Scotch fir, the oak, the beech. — Antiquities of the peat bogs. 

 Kjoekkenmoedding (kitchen refuse) ; Plants ; animals ; the traces of human in- 

 dustry in the Kjoekkenmoeddiug. — How flint was turned to use. 



Lecture III. 



The stone age in Sivitzcrland. — Pile- works or lake dwellings : their discov- 

 ery ; their situation ; their structure. — Instruments : arms ; pottery. — Plants : 

 flax and flaxen stuffs ; corn and bread. — Wild and domestic animals. 



Lecture IV. 



The bronze age. — The art of mining and smelting : copper and tin. — The 

 copper age in North America. — Bronze worked in the north of Europe. — Chemi- 

 cal examination of the antique bronze. — Gold known and Avorked. — The art of 

 casting metal. — Ornaments on the cast bronze, geometrical style. — Instruments; 

 arms ; trinkets. — In Switzerland, pile-works of the bronze age. 



Lecture V. 



The early iron age. — Meteoric iron : the primitive mode of working iron. — 

 Transition period from bronze to iron : Hallstatt. — Silver, glass, and enamel; 

 glazed pottery. — Coins. — The alphabet. — The North. — Switzerland : The Tie- 

 seuan-tind ; the Helvetians ; arms ; chariots ; roads ; pile-works ; coins and in- 

 scriptions ; ornaments. — The geometrical style, combined with rude animal and 

 human figures. — Monuments in Switzerland. 



Lecture VI. 



General revieic. — History of civilization ; different branches of that study. — 

 The origin of man. — Flint instruments in diluvial gravel, with extinct species. — 

 The art of producing fire; its consequences. — The stone age: comparison 

 with the present savages ; analogies and differences ; tombs and sacred stones ; 

 human race of the period. — The bronze age : a nev.^ civilization ; arts and com- 

 crce ; tombs; religion; races; the primitive inhabitants dispossessed. — The 

 early iron age : tombs ; human sacrifices ; religion ; human races ; domestic 

 animals; coining; writing. — The dawn of history; the beginning of science. 



Moral of the Lectures. — The study of antiquity reveals the slow but steady 

 progress of man, as the study of geology reveals the gradual development of 

 our planet. 



