Identifier: ridpathshistoryo01ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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mp; * ress of the race, peded in its prog-ress by preconceived opinions—is less scientific in its methodsand results than is geology.An examination of the tracesand remains of the human racein the long ages before the be-ginnings of national conscious-ness furnish excellent materials in proofof the progress, and to some extent therate of the progress, by which the humanrace has advanced from its primeval toits present condition; but the proper timemeasurement comes from the connectionwhich the facts of this science bear tothe facts of geology. We shall here refer at once and in anintroductory way to the material and subject-matter of archaeological inquiry.In the upper parts of the earths surfacethe remains of primitive £ . Subject-matter men are found associated of archaeologicalwith the products of the mqupost-diluvian age in geology. Humanbones, especially the harderportions, such as the skullsand teeth, have been laidaway by accident or designin localitiesespeciallyfavorable to
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Primitive cornmill of the Stone Age. ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF PREHISTORIC MAN. their preservation. Such remains areassociated with rocks and -other geolog-ical products of known epochs, and arealso mixed with the bones of extinctanimals, the place of which is known inprehistoric zoology. Xot only this, butthe works of the first men and the sec-ondary races, namely, their implementsand utensils, made in many instances ofimperishable materials, are plentifully 102 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. found in association with the bony re-mains of the people by whom such im-plements and tools were devised andused. The materials which primitivemen first employed in their rude way inthe fabrication of such utensils as theirlow existence and manner of life calledfor have remained in the forms origi-nally devised, and indicate most clearlythe customs and inartistic methods ofthe age. Nature led the way as to the substanceand design of primeval implements.Materials em- Stone was chosen fi

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