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erection of raegalithic stmctures in those countries,* and believes, in short, 

 that the neoUthic period dates in Europe from the arrival of those Asiatics, 

 who supplanted there the troglodytic tribes (probably JMongolian), of which 

 the Laps are the last remnant in Europe. The Aryan new-comers, he be- 

 lieves, brought with them several species of domestic animals and of cereals, 

 the remains of which are found abundantly in the Swiss lacustrine settle- 

 ments of earliest date, and likewise the celts of jadeite and nephrite dis- 

 covered in the dolmens of Brittany and in lake-dwellings, and consisting of 

 materials not found in Europe, but by no means rare in the East. 



"It would remain to us," he says, "to investigate by what routes 

 these colonists from Asia reached Europe ; whether they followed the same 

 track or came in successive waves, as it were, advancing in different direc- 

 tions. This is a vast and arduous task, which cannot be entered upon in a 

 rapid sketch like the present one, but which, perhaps, we shall make one 

 day the subject of a special treatise" (page 43). 



Reserving my observations on the theories advanced by Professor 

 Desor and other archaeologists for a subsequent part of this treatise, I 

 close my brief account of primitive sculptures in the Old "World and pass 

 over to a consideration of analogous lapidarian work in the Western Hemi- 

 sphere. 



* "It should be remembered," he says, "that, according to the majority of archteologists, the mega- 

 lithic monuments of Europe belong to the ago of polished stone, considering that arms and utensils 

 almost exclusively of stone have been found in the large dolmens of Brittany, and that among the fine 

 colts they have furnished, several are made of jadeite and other kinds of stone peculiar to the East. 

 Copper beads, it is true, have been taken from several dolmens in the South of France, aud Messrs. Piette 

 and Sacaze, moreover, have not long ago discovered in the cromlechs of the Pyrenees bronze bracelets 

 with designs recalling those seen on the ornaments of the later bronze age ; but hence it does not fol- 

 low that the metal was introduced in Europe simultaneously with the megalithic structures. The latter 

 may be of anterior date, and their use may have been continued after the introduction of bronze, and 

 perhaps even longer." — Pierres d Scuelles, p. 40. 



