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whatever distance, the great Pallas, they insist upon the strength 

 of the claims of that portion of Central Asia whence issue the great 

 rivers Ganges and Indus, Tigris and Euphrates, and which they 

 speak of as ' den grossen Buckel Asiens,' to be considered as the 

 primitive home of man, mainly as it was, according to them, the 

 original home of all our domestic animals and so many of our 

 cultivated food-plants. 



These writers and discoverers slightly overstated their case when 

 tliey said that all our domestic animals could be referred to parent 

 stocks indigenous to that region, though, as will be shortly shown 

 hereafter, it would have been little beyond the truth if, instead of 

 saying all the domestic animals absolutely, they had said all the 

 domestic animals whicli are absolutely inclhpensahle to modern maiis 

 comfort and jor ogress. But their case for their particular thesis 

 would have been greatly strengthened if they had known that jade 

 in the form of stone implements had accompanied man together 

 with the goat into Western Europe, and was found no nearer to 

 the Swiss Lake Dwellings than are the Kuenlun mines pointed 

 out on my map ; if they had known that copper and tin could have 

 been smelted together into bronze so readily either in Khorassan or 

 in Burmah ; if, to put however injudiciously my weakest point last, 

 they had also known that amber — such a frequent accompaniment 

 of prehistoric man — also lay within easy reach of his curious hands 

 in this latter country. But prehistoric archaeology has till lately 

 made but little advance since the time of Lucretius. De CandoUe 

 ('Hist, des Sciences et des Savants,^ p. 16^, '^^1^), indeed, classes it 

 as a discovery as new and as great as five others of the twenty or 

 thirty years previous to 1873, viz., spectrum analysis, convertibility 

 of force, the greater extent of glaciers in geological times, natural 

 selection, and the alternation of (animal) generations ; and the 

 writers referred to knew not, and could not have known, the whole 

 strength of their position. As regards my present purpose it is, 

 in these but little later days, superfluous to point out how the 

 discovery of mines whence prehistoric man must, or at least might, 

 have furnished himself with his weapons, implements, and orna- 

 ments, actually upon or along the same mountain ranges, spurs, 

 and valleys, in which he must, or at least might, have found in a 

 wild state the animals which he has now around him as necessary 

 and universal elements in his own social life, bears upon the 



