The Pre-history of the North: Based on Contemporary MemorialsTrübner & Company, 1886 - 206 pages |
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... Europe . Not a few discoveries of the self - same character have been made in the countries of the Mediterranean ... central Europe had received their earliest inhabitants , however feeble and few , along the river plains leading from ...
... Europe . Not a few discoveries of the self - same character have been made in the countries of the Mediterranean ... central Europe had received their earliest inhabitants , however feeble and few , along the river plains leading from ...
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... Europe were steadily developing . In the Mediterranean countries numerous ... central Germany are figures designed even in colours . In Britanny in the ... Europe during the Stone - Age maintained themselves longest separate from the THE ...
... Europe were steadily developing . In the Mediterranean countries numerous ... central Germany are figures designed even in colours . In Britanny in the ... Europe during the Stone - Age maintained themselves longest separate from the THE ...
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... central Europe probably formed the first starting - point for the amber - trade between the Baltic and southern Europe ; and the more so , as it would seem that the more distant amber - producing coasts THE LATER STONE - AGE IN THE ...
... central Europe probably formed the first starting - point for the amber - trade between the Baltic and southern Europe ; and the more so , as it would seem that the more distant amber - producing coasts THE LATER STONE - AGE IN THE ...
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... central parts of Europe have to show . Nor do the largest and finest polished flint axes in the North appear , as in west Europe , to have been found in the grave chambers . But on the other hand the largest and most beautiful stone ...
... central parts of Europe have to show . Nor do the largest and finest polished flint axes in the North appear , as in west Europe , to have been found in the grave chambers . But on the other hand the largest and most beautiful stone ...
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... central Europe lain like a frontier - rampart to the south , and thus for centuries checked the Bronze - Age and people in their steady advance from Asia and the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts to the Danube- lands and the interior ...
... central Europe lain like a frontier - rampart to the south , and thus for centuries checked the Bronze - Age and people in their steady advance from Asia and the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts to the Danube- lands and the interior ...
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