At a subsequent period, that is, during the bronze epoch, dead bodies were often, as we shall see, reduced to ashes either wholly or in part, and the ashes were enclosed in urns.
FOOTNOTES:
[ [26] Alexandre Bertrand's 'Les Monuments Primitifs de la Gaule.'
[ [27] 'Des Sépultures à l'Age de la Pierre,' pp. 15, 16. 1865.
[ [28] 'Le Danemark à l'Exposition Universelle de 1867.' Paris. 1868.
THE AGE OF METALS.
I.
THE BRONZE EPOCH.