CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



ON THE USE OF BRONZE IN ANCIENT TIMES, 



Division of Pre -historic archaeology into four periods First discovery of metal 

 Copper Tin Iron Allusions to bronze by ancient writers Finds of the Iron 

 age Tiefenau Nydam Thorsbjerg Finds of the Bronze age Bronze and iron 

 arms not found together Objects characteristic of the Bronze age Bronze 

 celts Modes of handling Bronze swords Bronze daggers, spear-heads, arrows, 

 fish-hooks, sickles Bronze knives Kazor knives Bronze bracelets Bronze 

 pins Gold ornaments Character of ornamentation Tumulus of Treenhoi 

 Dress in the Bronze age Dress of a chief in the Bronze age Mode of burial. 



CHAPTER II. 



THE BRONZE AGE. 



Similarity of bronze implements in different countries Bronze implements 

 not of Roman origin Referred by some archseologists to the Phoenicians Phoe- 

 nician voyages Himilco Pytheas Thule supposed by Nilsson to be Norway 

 Phoenician colonies and commerce Bronze composed of copper and tin Tin 

 obtained from Cornwall Amber from German Ocean Baal worship in Northern 

 Europe Question still doubtful Bronze age civilisation Bronze age archi- 

 tecture Stonehenge Abury Silbury Hill more ancient than the Roman road 

 Stone circles Stone circles, etc., in India Stone circles in Palestine and 

 Algeria. 



CHAPTEE III. 



THE USE OF STONE IN ANCIENT TIMES. 



The great abundance of stone implements Stone used after discovery of metal 

 -^Material preferred for stone implements Fracture of flint Flint flakes 

 Stone hatchets Scrapers The small axes of the Shell-mounds Chisels Spear- 

 heads Daggers Slingstones Arrow-heads Manufacture of flint implements 

 Bone implements Danish coastfinds Flintfinds. 



