CHAP. XIX. RECAPITULATION OF RESULTS. 369 



CHAPTER XIX. 



RECAPITULATION OF GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF MAN'S ANTIQUITY. 



EECAPITULATION 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 CIVILIZATION AND ITS DATE IN COMPARISON WITH THAT OF 

 THE FIRST AND SECOND STONE PERIODS. 



fT^HE ages of stone and bronze, so called by archseologists, 

 -■- were spoken of in the earlier chapters of this work. 

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

 Eoman occupation of Helvetia, Gaul, and other countries north 

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

 a somewhat uniform civilization 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 tastefid decoration of the tools and utensils ob- 

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



