The Pre-history of the North: Based on Contemporary MemorialsTrübner & Company, 1886 - 206 pages |
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Page xii
... mark a new departure in the critical investi- gation of antiquities , the rise of a new method . -- Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae , who had thus the temerity to call the common faith in question , was then a young man in his twentieth ...
... mark a new departure in the critical investi- gation of antiquities , the rise of a new method . -- Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae , who had thus the temerity to call the common faith in question , was then a young man in his twentieth ...
Page xiii
... mark and the Duchies drew the attention of Danish and German archæologists to the antiquities of Schles- wig - Holstein ; and Worsaae came forward to defend . 1 German Translation , 1884 ; Lond . 1849 , the " Primeval Antiquities of ...
... mark and the Duchies drew the attention of Danish and German archæologists to the antiquities of Schles- wig - Holstein ; and Worsaae came forward to defend . 1 German Translation , 1884 ; Lond . 1849 , the " Primeval Antiquities of ...
Page 19
... mark humble cabins of earth and logs could be speedily rebuilt at any time . Far slower and more difficult must have been the work of removal and settlement , when the people were accompanied by whole trains of domestic animals- oxen ...
... mark humble cabins of earth and logs could be speedily rebuilt at any time . Far slower and more difficult must have been the work of removal and settlement , when the people were accompanied by whole trains of domestic animals- oxen ...
Page 41
... marks on large stones from the Stone- and Bronze- Ages in almost all lands . From investigations of sacred tokens in the later periods of heathenism we may conclude that the round cup - shaped depressions and circles correspond most ...
... marks on large stones from the Stone- and Bronze- Ages in almost all lands . From investigations of sacred tokens in the later periods of heathenism we may conclude that the round cup - shaped depressions and circles correspond most ...
Page 52
... marks of internal similarity in their chief features . Attention has only recently been directed to the pre - historic antiquities of India ; but already numerous discoveries have been observed of characteristic weapons and articles of ...
... marks of internal similarity in their chief features . Attention has only recently been directed to the pre - historic antiquities of India ; but already numerous discoveries have been observed of characteristic weapons and articles of ...
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