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Neolithic Man. — So far as known the late Paleolithic passed 

 gradually into the Neolithic or recent stone age when Men were 

 more highly developed and similar in structure, at least, to those 

 of today. The stone implements of Neolithic Men were usually 

 more perfectly made and often polished. " The remains of Neo- 

 lithic Man are found, much as are those of the North American 

 Indians, upon or near the surface, in burial mounds, in shell heaps 

 (the refuse heaps of their settlements), in peat-bogs, caves, recent 

 flood-plain deposits, and in the beds of lakes near shore where they 

 sometimes built their dwellings upon piles. . . . Neolithic Man in 

 Europe had learned to make pottery, to spin and weave linen, to 

 hew timber, and build boats, and to grow wheat and barley. The 

 Dog, Horse, Ox, Sheep, Goat, and Hog had been domesticated." l 

 This stage of culture gradually passed into the historic age. 



"Man is linked to the past through the system of life, of which 

 he is the last, the completing creation. But, unlike other species 

 of that closing system of the past, he, through his spiritual nature, 

 is more intimately connected with the opening future" (J. D. 

 Dana) . 



1 W. H. Norton: Elements of Geology, p. 448. 



