THE ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF MAN 101 



period could do more than build stone monuments and 

 fashion poll stone implement-: they understood 



something of rude mining processes, for they 1< ft arti< !- 

 of bronze and iron. 51 The nee of ornaments, arms 



,-m.l ctittini: implements of all kinds, such as axes, knives 

 and the handles of swords dating back to the Neolithic 

 period, has led Lubbock to divide tin- prehistoric period 

 into four epochs: tin hrift Age (rough stone age), the 

 I'oli-hed stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. 

 In th.- course of tl i->ion in this chapter we have 



attempted to present some of the most authentic and im- 

 portant evid.-nce which scin.ti-t.- have irathered to ex- 

 plain tin origin and the great antiquity of man. In the 

 chapters immediately following, we must concern our- 

 >elves with the even more difficult proMem of accounting 

 for man's remarkahle mental development which sur- 

 passes that of any other living creature. This really 

 -rs us to the study of Social K volution, for modern 

 -Indent - of mankind have come to helieve more and ? 

 completely in the importance of the social factor in the 

 evolution of higher animal types. 



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