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In this latter respect, however, the advantage appears to be 

 all on the side of the ancients, whom we have no right to 

 accuse of cannibalism. 



If the absence of cereal remains justifies us, as it appears 

 to do, in concluding that they had no knowledge of agricul- 

 ture, they must certainly have sometimes suffered from periods 

 of great scarcity, indications of which may, perhaps, be seen 

 in the bones of the fox, wolf, and other carnivora, which 

 would hardly have been eaten from choice ; on the other hand, 

 they were blessed in the ignorance of spirituous liquors, and 

 saved thereby from what is at present the greatest scourge of 

 Northern Europe. 



Prof. Worsaae has proposed to. divide the Stone age into 

 two divisions, the first of which he again sub-divides. His 

 classification stands as follows 



The Older Stone Age. 



1. The stone implements found in the drift, and in caves 

 with remains of the mammoth, rhinoceros, hyaena, and other 

 extinct animals. 



2. The Kjokkenmoddings and Coastfinds. 



The Later Stone Age. 



Characterised by the beautifully worked stone implements 

 and large tumuli. 



The shell-mounds and coastfinds, according to Professor 

 Worsaae, are characterised by very rough flint implements 

 (fig. 25-129) and are evidently the remains of a much ruder 

 and more barbarous people than that which constructed 

 the large Stone age tumuli, and the beautiful weapons, etc., 

 found in them. He does not altogether deny that a few well- 

 worked implements, and fragments of such, have been found 

 in the Kjokkenmoddings, but he considers that some of these 

 at least may be altogether more recent than the shell- 



