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K, E "V I E "W S. 

 I. — The Lake-Dwellings of Europe, being the Ehind Lectures 



IN ARCHiEOLOGY FOR 188S. By RoBERT MuNRO, M.A., M.D. 

 Eoyal 8vo. pp. xl. and 600, with 199 coraposite Illustrations, 

 containing 2172 separate Figures, and 14 Maps and Plans. 

 (London : Cassell & Company.) 



^IHE study of Prehistoric Man, or the attempt to discover 

 evidences of the early races who first occupied Europe in 

 Prehistoric times, and to interpret these relics by a knowledge of 

 the habits and customs of existing aboriginal races, may certainly 

 be said to have been initiated near the end of the first half of the 

 present century. But the most important discoveries were actually 

 made within the second half; discoveries so vast in importance 

 in connexion with the history of the human race as to excite the 

 attention of the whole scientific world and to result in the develop- 

 ment of a literature devoted entirely to Prehistoric Archeeology. 



In Denmark, England, Belgium, France, Switzerland and else- 

 where, the stream of new light seemed never ending. Yet many of 

 these novelties had really been discovered long, long, before, but 

 no one seemed disposed to notice them, nor was any curiosity 

 expressed when their discovery was announced. Then why this 

 sudden enthusiasm ? Simply because the public mind had become 

 educated and was beginning to take an interest in natural science, 

 and men like Falconer, Prestwich, Lyell, John Evans, Lubbock, 

 Pitt-Rivers, Franks, Boyd-Dawkins and Pengelly in England ; 

 Lartet and Christy in France ; Keller in Switzerland, and very 

 many others, were able, not only to discover, but to correctly 

 interpret and describe, what they found or saw. It is to the labours 

 and publications of these men that we owe the great advance in 

 Anthropological knowledge to which we have attained, and to the 

 general intelligent interest taken by the public at large in the 

 history of early man in Europe. 



Following the sequence of these discoveries, we find primitive 

 man wandering and homeless, save for some cave, or rock-shelter ; 

 here as a bold paljeolithic hunter of the Mammoth and the Woolly 

 Rhinoceros, or disputing his right to some cave with the Bear, the 

 Lion, or the Hysena. There, as the humble shore-dweller, feasting 

 upon the oyster or the whelk, the limpet, or the mussel. Or, 

 again, engaged in making excellent harpoons out of Reindeer-antlers, 

 and manufacturing needles out of the leg-bone of the Horse ; 

 leaving behind him abundant evidence of his prowess in the chase 

 in the form of well-carved or incised figures of these and other 

 animals, on their antlers or pieces of their bones ; unrivalled as 

 a skilful worker in flint and other stone, from the rough to the 

 polished implement of perfect beauty. Nor is this all, — for in those 

 districts of Europe where rivers and lakes abound, we learn that 

 certain Neolithic peoples — probably at a somewhat later period — 

 occupied their shores and banks as mixed fishers, hunters, and even 

 as early agriculturists — if their garden-patches may have deserved 



