The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-02-16

were OF ootn stone and sun-dried brick
The dwellings were constructed of bricks
Large quadrangular plates, sometimes
foot In length, and from 8 to 4 inches
thick. The pottery is different from that
below. Numbers of stone implements
occur, along with lance-heads, battle-axes,
and daggers of bronze, with many objects
In gold and silver. In. this bed DR..
Schliemann found the remains of a large
house which he holds to have been the
royal palace of Priam, and close to it he
found what he regards as the royal treas
ure-six silver talents, gold goblets,
silver vases, fourteen battle axes and
thirteen lance-heads of bronze two gold
diadems, Sc gold. earrings, $500 small
gold rings, buttons, bars, dice, etc., etc.
In the fourth bed, after the destruc-
tion of the third city by fire, rude peo-
pie "a Greek colony, perhaps) succeed,
and the stone implements are exceedingly
numerous. Very few metal implements
occur.
In the fifth city the pottery is inferior.
There are many knives and battle-axes
OF bronze, and few flint saws and stone
hammers
In the sixth bed we come to what Dr.
Schliemann calls the Lydian city. There
are knives, axes, and lance-heads of
bronze. No stone implements. And the
first trace of iron.
The seventh bed represents the Hell
lenic city-New Troy.
We take the trouble to repeat these
statements in order that the reader NAV
perceive how utterly subversive the facts
are of the theory of the Three Ages as
taught by eminent scientific men, and of
the long chronology of prehistoric arch
zoology. The idea is studiously presented
that the Biblical chronology has become
utterly worthless, and the historical char
acter of the accounts of the creation of
man and of the deluge is more than
doubted. The Hebrew chronology takes
us back only some $500 years to Noah.
But In Dana and LIE Conte's manuals of
Geology, we find full recognition of all
the claims of Prehistoric Archaeology,
which teaches us that the semi-civilised
lake-dwellers were living in Switzerland
In the Polished Stone Age fifteen hun
dred years before the Biblical date for
the Flood, while the cave-men had in
habited Europe as long ago as one hun
dred thousand or two hundred thousand
years. 1t is well, therefore, to study at
tentively what Dr. Schliemann and Pro-
lesser Virchow found at Troy.
The Homeric Trojans Qike those who
went before them) used both stone and
bronze,knives and axes. After their city
was burned, the people who succeeded
them did the same thing. The stone i'm
plements were in use with beautiful cups
of silver and gold, beautiful Jewels of
gold, and splendid objects of wheel-made
pottery. The SO called Lydian settle
ment was still almost unacquainted with
iron, and had their battle-axes and knives
of bronze.
The date of the Trojan war was about
1910 B. C.-the date given by Herodo-
tus. The use of stone Implements in
Asia continued, we know not how MANY
centuries after this, but certainly down
to 1000 or 900 B. c., and this IN the
TOMS.
Of course the lake-dwellers among the
Swiss Alps, and the rude fishermen of
Denmark, were in their Stone Age at
this time. Indeed if the inhabitants of
Asia Minor, in the presence of the Assy-
rian, the Phpnician, and the Hittite civ
ilisations, were using stone axes down to
A. d. 900, it is presumable that in Den
mark and Britain they were used down to
the Christian era Gas is abundantly proved
to be the fact from other sources).
It's very remarkable fact that though
new books appear every year on Prehis-
toric Archaeology, and though England
France, and Germany have reviews and
magazines devoted to the subject. we
rarely see in any Of them any allusion
whatever to DR.. Schliemann stupendous
discoveries. They ignore him almost en-
tirely. In the late elaborate work of
Dro4 VII Dz-l