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1878.] 
But when we go back beyond the age of polished stone-imple- 
ments there is a complete break, — a period unrepresented, ex- 
cepting by physical changes in the appearance of the country, 
and by the deposition of clays and gravels, beneath which the 
relics of the earlier people and the remains of the extindt ani- 
mals lie buried. 
The evidence of the completeness of the break, and of the 
importance of the interval that separate palaeolithic and neolithic 
man, is to be found in these volumes, and in Prof. Rupert Jones’s 
edition of the “ Reliquiae Aquitanicae.” The reindeer is absent 
from the lake dwellings. The dog and the sheep are found in 
the earliest settlements, and both were unknown to the cave 
dwellers. The latter knew nothing of agriculture, of stock- 
keeping, or of weaving, and yet in the figures of the animals 
that they have left behind them — engraved on horn and ivory — 
they show a phase of art culture to which the lake dwellers never 
attained. 
Had these different races ever come in contadt as enemies, 
we ought to have found amongst the remains of the pile settle- 
ments some trophies taken from the people they displaced. 
Tusks of the brown bear and of the wild boar, perforated so that 
they might be worn as ornaments, are not uncommon, and show 
that they would have carefully preserved the proofs of their 
victories over nobler foes if they had ever encountered them. 
But there are none, and this — considered in connection with the 
other faCts mentioned, and with the physical evidence that a 
long time intervened between the two peoples and faunas — 
indicates that they never met in Central Europe. As the evidence 
now stands it seems to warrant the conclusion that palaeolithic 
man and the extindl animals were destroyed in Northern and 
Central Europe by some physical catastrophe, and that, after a 
long interval, neolithic man migrated northward from the shores 
of the Mediterranean and from the Iberian peninsula, and found 
the land unoccupied excepting by species of wild animals that 
had escaped extirpation, and which, notwithstanding the perse- 
cution to which they have been subjected since, still exist 
amongst us. 
The questions touched upon in this review are only a few of 
those suggested in reading through Mr. Lee’s most valuable 
work. It should be in the hands of every student of anthrop- 
ology. The letterpress extends to 725 pages, and there are no 
less than 206 plates, with admirable figures of the lake dwellings 
and of the multitudinous objects found in them. 
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