CHAP. xix. RECAPITULATION OP RESULTS. 369 



CHAPTEK XIX. 



RECAPITULATION OF GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF MAN'S ANTIQUITY. 



RECAPITULATION OF RESULTS ARRIVED AT IN THE EARLIER CHAPTERS 



AGES OF STONE AND BRONZE DANISH PEAT AND KITCHEN-MIDDENS 



SWISS LAKE-DWELLINGS LOCAL CHANGES IN VEGETATION AND IN 



THE WILD AND DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 

 COEVAL WITH THE AGE OF BRONZE AND THE LATER STONE PERIOD 

 ESTIMATES OF THE POSITIVE DATE OF SOME DEPOSITS OF THE LATER 



STONE PERIOD ANCIENT DIVISION OF THE AGE OF STONE OF ST. 



ACHEUL AND AURIGNAC MIGRATIONS OF MAN IN THAT PERIOD FROM 



THE CONTINENT TO ENGLAND IN POST-GLACIAL TIMES SLOW RATE 

 OF PROGRESS IN BARBAROUS AGES DOCTRINE OF THE SUPERIOR IN 

 TELLIGENCE AND ENDOWMENTS OF THE ORIGINAL STOCK OF MANKIND 



CONSIDERED OPINIONS OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS, AND THEIR 



COINCIDENCE WITH THOSE OF THE MODERN PROGRESSIONIST EARLY 



EGYPTIAN CIVILISATION AND ITS DATE IN COMPARISON WITH THAT OF 

 THE FIRST AND SECOND STONE PERIODS. 



THE ages of stone and bronze, so called by archaeologists, 

 were spoken of in the earlier chapters of this work. 

 That of bronze has been traced back to times anterior to the 

 Roman occupation of Helvetia, Gaul, and other countries north 

 of the Alps. When weapons of that mixed metal were in use, 

 a somewhat uniform civilisation seems to have prevailed over 

 a wide extent of central and northern Europe, and the long 

 duration of such a state of things in Denmark and Switzer 

 land is shown by the gradual improvement which took place 

 in the useful and ornamental arts. Such progress is attested 

 by the increasing variety of the forms, and the more perfect 

 finish and tasteful decoration of the tools and utensils ob 

 tained from the more modern deposits of the bronze age, those 



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