One of the earliest forms of habitation in Britain. From the British Museum “Guide to the Bronze Age.”
It is of special importance to note that similar flint tools have also been found along with extinct land mammalia in the stratified drift of the Nerbudda valley, in South India, as the supposition more than suggests itself that Drift Man came to our continent with the Drift fauna that immigrated from Asia. The possibility that man also got from North Asia to North America with the mammoth during the Drift Period can no longer be dismissed after the results of palæontological research. It explains at once the close connection between the build of the American and the great Asiatic (Mongolian) races.
REMAINS OF A STONE AGE MANSION
These remains of a large pile hut discovered in Germany show that Stone Age Man had made good progress in building. The lower diagram shows a transverse section.
THE EARLIEST EFFORTS AT BOAT-BUILDING
The dug-out canoe, hollowed from a single trunk, was the far-off parent of the ocean-going ship. The upper picture represents a prehistoric canoe found in Sussex and the lower example is taken from a German specimen.
Stone implements of palæolithic form have been found in Drift strata in North America, and the same applies also, as we have seen, to South America. The best finds there were those made by Ameghino in the pampas formation of Argentina. Here marrow-bones, split, worked, and burnt, and jaws of the stag, glyptodon, mastodon, and toxodon have been repeatedly found along with flint tools of palæolithic stamp; and Santiago Roth, who took part in these researches, supposes that fossil man in South America occasionally used the coats of mail of the gigantic armadillos as dwellings. But the civilisation of South American man is doubtless identical with that of European fossil man—tools and weapons of the stone types familiar in Europe, the working of bones, the use of fire for cooking, and animal food, with the consequent special fondness for fat and marrow.