Geology and History: A Popular Exposition of All that is Known of the Earth and Its Inhabitants in Pre-historic TimesTrübner & Company, 1865 - 84 pages |
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Page 75 - And assuredly, there is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage.
Page 8 - Thomson, who proposed that the prehistoric period (see PREHISTORY) could be divided into an Age of Stone, an Age of Bronze, and an Age of Iron. His theoretical scheme was soon shown by excavation to be largely valid. With numerous elaborations and subdivisions, including the subdivision of the Stone Age into palaeolothic ('Old Stone Age') and neolithic ('New Stone Age...
Page 46 - ... in the valley of the Ouse, near Bedford, at Hoxne and Icklingham, in Suffolk, in the...