26 RELIQUIAE AQtTITANlC^E. 



From the archaeological or industrial point of view, it may be remarked that from 

 the Drift we have no example of Man's industry except implements of flint ; and 

 of these only the larger and coarser have heen detected, though there is no reason 

 to doubt that he had also implements for finer work than the majority of those 

 found are fitted for. 



In the Reindeer-period, although Man had attained to a great proficiency in 

 chipping, we have a total absence of ground or polished axes ; and though he 

 had arrived at the art of sewing, there is no trace of his having known how to 

 spin ; and in many of these caves of Dordogne there are no traces of pottery. 



In the Rjokkenmoddings pottery is not unfrequent, though ground axes are 

 very few, but not wholly wanting*, and spindle-whorls are scarce. 



In the very oldest of the Lake- dwellings (those in which there is no trace of 

 metal, as at Wangen) the majority of the axes are ground, and the grinding-beds 

 are the same as those found in the Surface-period of Denmark and England. 

 Pottery is abundant; not only spinning but weaving is presented; and there are 

 evidences that the cultivation of wheat and other cereals had been attained to. 

 In the Cromlechs and the Sepulchres, pottery is abundant ; and the frequent 

 occurrence of articles in bronze indicates a later time. 



In conclusion, it must be admitted that the facts here stated bear on the 

 hitherto presumed duration of Man's existence on earth, and can only be fairly in- 

 terpreted in favour of a higher antiquity than was once assigned to it, and that these 

 and kindred researches are doing in degree for the chronology of Man what geo- 

 logy has already done for the chronology of the earth's crust; but, at the same 

 time, we are bound to confess that, so far, nothing in the investigation of the works 

 of uncivilized or primitive man, either of ancient or modern times, appears to ne- 

 cessitate a change in the old cherished idea of the Unity of the Human Race. 



H. C. 



* Mr. John Evans, F.E.S., F.S.A., in company with Professor Steenstrup, For. Mem. E.S., recently dis- 

 covered in one of the Danish Kjokkenmoddings two or three flint flakes made out of broken polished axes ; 

 he also found a polished gouge-edged hatchet, ploughed up on the surface of another Kjokkenmodding. 

 Professor Steenstrup has also detected specimens similar to those first-mentioned among the numerous flint 

 implements found along the sea-margin of Denmark and referred to the period of the Kjokkenmoddings. 

 EDITOR, February 1867. 



