ISBN: 1231364815

[EAN: 9781231364819], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR,LITERARY, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 136 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic … More...

[EAN: 9781231364819], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR,LITERARY, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 136 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: . . . to and fro, but of a movement which, in spite of frequent stops and relapses, has on the whole been forward; that there has been from age to age a growth in Mans power over Nature, which no degrading influences have been able permanently to check. 191 CHAPTER VIII. THE STONE AGE--PAST AND PRESENT. The Stone Age is that period in the history of mankind during which stone is habitually used as a material for weapons and tools. Antiquaries find it convenient to make the Stone Age cease whenever metal implements come into common use, and the Bronze Age, or the Iron Age, supervenes. But the last traces of a Stone Age are hardly known to disappear anywhere, in spite of the general use of metals; and in studying this phase of the worlds history for itself, it may be considered as still existing, not only among savages who have not fairly come to the use of iron, but even among civilized nations. Wherever the use of stone instruments, as they were used in the Stone Age proper, is to be found, there the Stone Age has not entirely passed away. The stone hammers with which tinkers might be found at work till lately in remote districts in Ireland, 1 the huge stone mallets with wooden handles which are still used in Iceland for driving posts and other heavy hammering, 2 and the lancets of obsidian with which the Indians of Mexico still bleed themselves, as their fathers used to do before the Spanish Conquest, 3 are stone implements which have survived for centuries the general introduction of iron. Mere natural stones, picked up and used without any artificial shaping at all, are implements of a very low order. Such 1 Wilde, Cat. of Mus. of B. I. Acad. ; Dublin, 1857, p. 80. 2 Klemm, Allgemeine Culturwissenschaft; Leipzig and Sondershaugen, 1855-8, part ii. p. 86. 3 B. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

2012, ISBN: 1231364815

[EAN: 9781231364819], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing… More...

[EAN: 9781231364819], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: .to and fro, but of a movement which, in spite of frequent stops and relapses, has on the whole been forward; that there has been from age to age a growth in Man s power over Nature, which no degrading influences have been able permanently to check. 191 CHAPTER VIII. THE STONE AGE--PAST AND PRESENT. The Stone Age is that period in the history of mankind during which stone is habitually used as a material for weapons and tools. Antiquaries find it convenient to make the Stone Age cease whenever metal implements come into common use, and the Bronze Age, or the Iron Age, supervenes. But the last traces of a Stone Age are hardly known to disappear anywhere, in spite of the general use of metals; and in studying this phase of the world s history for itself, it may be considered as still existing, not only among savages who have not fairly come to the use of iron, but even among civilized nations. Wherever the use of stone instruments, as they were used in the Stone Age proper, is to be found, there the Stone Age has not entirely passed away. The stone hammers with which tinkers might be found at work till lately in remote districts in Ireland,1 the huge stone mallets with wooden handles which are still used in Iceland for driving posts and other heavy hammering,2 and the lancets of obsidian with which the Indians of Mexico still bleed themselves, as their fathers used to do before the Spanish Conquest,3 are stone implements which have survived for centuries the general introduction of iron. Mere natural stones, picked up and used without any artificial shaping at all, are implements of a very low order. Such 1 Wilde, Cat. of Mus. of B. I. Acad.; Dublin, 1857, p. 80. 2 Klemm, Allgemeine Culturwissenschaft; Leipzig Sondershaugen, 1855-8, part ii. p. 86. 3 B.<

2012, ISBN: 1231364815

[EAN: 9781231364819], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing … More...

[EAN: 9781231364819], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: .to and fro, but of a movement which, in spite of frequent stops and relapses, has on the whole been forward; that there has been from age to age a growth in Man s power over Nature, which no degrading influences have been able permanently to check. 191 CHAPTER VIII. THE STONE AGE--PAST AND PRESENT. The Stone Age is that period in the history of mankind during which stone is habitually used as a material for weapons and tools. Antiquaries find it convenient to make the Stone Age cease whenever metal implements come into common use, and the Bronze Age, or the Iron Age, supervenes. But the last traces of a Stone Age are hardly known to disappear anywhere, in spite of the general use of metals; and in studying this phase of the world s history for itself, it may be considered as still existing, not only among savages who have not fairly come to the use of iron, but even among civilized nations. Wherever the use of stone instruments, as they were used in the Stone Age proper, is to be found, there the Stone Age has not entirely passed away. The stone hammers with which tinkers might be found at work till lately in remote districts in Ireland,1 the huge stone mallets with wooden handles which are still used in Iceland for driving posts and other heavy hammering,2 and the lancets of obsidian with which the Indians of Mexico still bleed themselves, as their fathers used to do before the Spanish Conquest,3 are stone implements which have survived for centuries the general introduction of iron. Mere natural stones, picked up and used without any artificial shaping at all, are implements of a very low order. Such 1 Wilde, Cat. of Mus. of B. I. Acad.; Dublin, 1857, p. 80. 2 Klemm, Allgemeine Culturwissenschaft; Leipzig Sondershaugen, 1855-8, part ii. p. 86. 3 B.<