PRIMEVAL MAN. 



But this is the outer margin of Time-absolute. 

 No farther, with even an approximation 

 to the truth, can we measure the order of 

 events by the lapse of years. 

 I But there is a point at which the evidence 

 of Archaeology begins before the evidence of 

 History has closed. There is a border-land 

 where both kinds of evidence are found to- 

 gether, or rather, where some testimony 

 exists of which it is difficult to say whether 

 it is the testimony of written documents or 

 of the inarticulate monuments of Man. It 

 was the habit of one of the most ancient 

 nations in the world to record all events in 

 the form of pictorial representation. Their 

 domestic habits, their foreign wars, their 

 religious beliefs, are thus all presented to 



