558 IMBEDDING OF THE EEMAINS OF MAN AND [Ch. XLVII. 



will there be seen that all these remains belong to the latter 



modern 

 Post-tertiarj, when 



marine 



and freshwater. 



were already of the same species as those now living. 



The age of Iron was preceded in Europe by that of Bronze, 



metal 



These bronze 



weapons prevailed in Switzerland and Ganl long before the 

 Roman invasion of those countries. Implements of the same 

 mixture of copper and tin occur in many of the Swiss lake- 



mosses 



Scandinavia. But coins are entirely absent, and no proofs of 

 the art of writing or of letters having been invented have as 

 yet been brought to light. Some of the pottery of the Bronze 

 age is said to show marks of the potter's wheel, but the 

 greater part of it was made by hand. Professor Mlsson long 

 ago observed that the handles of the swords as well as the 

 bracelets of the Bronze age indicate that the size of the race 



ed them t 

 Northern 



Many animals 



man 



served in certain Swiss lake-dwellings ; several cereals also 

 and fruits were cultivated. Gold, amber, and glass were in 



ornamental 



In the Swiss lake-villap-es 



silver, zinc, and lead were known. 



of the antecedent Stone period called Neolithic, as being 



newer than a still older age of stone, men were evidently 



me 



comm- 



called Celts, chisels, and other tools, were so abundant in 

 Northern and Western Europe that the Dublin museum con- 

 tains more than 2,000 of them, that of Copenhagen more 

 than 10,000, and that of Stockholm not fewer than 15,000.^ 

 The Danish shell-mounds or kitchen-middens, as well as 



filings, and a large part of the 

 )his Neolithic period, but none 



many 



implements 



mammalia 



Hand-made 



r. 



" 





/ 



Sir J. Lubbock, Introduction to Translation of Xilsson's 'Primitive Inhab- 

 itants of Scandinavia/ p. xxiv. 



