The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-22
Interesting Explanation of tho Rare and

These cases are divided longitudinally to
represent the different countries of the
world with greater or less particularly.
Great Britain is at the top, then France
and Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, the
Scandinavian countries Asia, Africa,
Oceanica, and at the bottom the United
States of America.
The cases are divided perpendicularly
that is, across the stream of time into
the various epochs of human civilization
during the prehistoric ages. In the di-
vision of this civilization in the countries
of Western Europe, Mr.. Wilson has fol-
lowed the nomenclature of M. de Nor
tillet, but in the whole display has prr-
sued the recognized division of the ages
of stone, bronze and iron. The stone age
is divided into the two periods-paleo-
lithic, the more ancient, and neolithic,
the more modern period. The first or
earliest epoch of this period is named
Chelleen, after the Station of Chelles, on
the River Seine, few miles east of
Paris.
The man of this epoch made and used
but one implement.
This was generally made of flint, but
he also employed any other local stone
which would chip to suit his purpose.
The man of this age never knew that by
rubbing one stone against another they
could be sharpened and brought to an
edge. His sole mode Of procedure was
oy chipping-that is, striking it off in
Makes by blows until the implement as
sumed the proper form and condition.
The implements belonging to the paleo-
lithic period from Great Britain are
found only in the eastern and southern
portion, from Norfolk around to Devon
shire and LaSd's End. They have been
found in (and are exhibited FROM every
quarter Of France and Southern Bel
GUM; from Italy in all its parts, and
from Spain and Portugal. They have
not been found in Northern England, in
Scotland, Wales nor Northern Ireland.
They have not been found in Northern
Belgium nor Holland, nor in the Scandi-
navian countries, not in that portion of
Germany bordering on the Baltic, nor in
Northern Russia, These countries were
possibly covered at that epoch with gla-
ciers, OF possibly by the great North Sea.
These implements have been found in
Asia, in Palestine, in India from Bonn
bay to Calcutta, in Cambodia, and in
Japan; in Africa all along the shores Of
the Mediterranean and up the valley of
the Nile. Prof. H. w. Haynes, of Bos-
ton, searched for and found them, al
most by the hundred, at the city of
Luxor, the site of the ancient city OF
Thebes, and they have been found from
thence south wherever sought, to the
Cape of Good Hope. The man of this
epoch also inhabited the United States
The most celebrated and satisfactory
iinds have been those of DR.. Abbott, OF
Trenton, N, j.; of Miss Babbitt, at Lit
tie Falls, Mimi, and Of DR. Charles F.
Metz, of Madisonville, at Loveland, Ham
ilton county. These finds have been of
implements in the river gravels varying
at depth from the surface down to
forty-one feet. The Investigations dur
ing the past summer of Mr.. Wilson have
shown that these implements are to be
found in almost every State and Terri
tory of the United States, and, conse-
quently, that the man Of that civiliza-
tion extended over and occupied the ter.
ritory of the United States in much the
same manner as he did that of Europe.
His occupation of America may not
have been actually contemporaneous, for
we have no method of calculating time
In that period. But this civilization in
America was the same as that during the
same epoch in Europe. The man Of this
epoch was n savage 1t Is believed by
those who have studied this ques
} tion the best that he had no habitation
AVva linz MI iatu mr.
tribunal organization, aud recognized nc
parental or fllial obligation; that he hat
no property of his own, and recognized
no such rights in others. He was con
temporary In Europe, and possibly il
America, with the cave bear, the nam
moth, the hippotamus and other now OK
tinct animals, and the apparent only su
+ periority or advantage which he had owe
: these and the other animals consisted il
this one implement, which we have de
y scribed and in the power of thought how
to use it, which belonged to him as a hu
: man being.
u A complete skeleton of cave bear o
n the Chelleen epoch Is set up over the frs
d case. 1t is fossilized and comes from tin
q cavern of L'HerSa in the department o
Ariege, France, near the foot of the Pyr
=, enees 1t shows u massive brute of grea
ppiVhFSph CIV oOiiAAoyt ohu Ao ihpSiSpoih
e to study.
G No time or period can be assigned t
e mans occupation OF these countries, bu
d 1t would appear from the position II
which his implements have been foun
tnat it dates back to, and was contenl
poraneous with, the earlier formation @
our present river valleys.
The climate of this epoch was war;
and moist and the man roamed the foi
est and plain without either clothing c
l. the need of it.
d The next epoch seems to have brough
=, change of climate. 1t became col
u and damp, aud the man was driven I
Is seek shelter and warmth In the caverni
=. His implements changed to the Moustt
ren points, SO called after the Cavern
p Moustier In France, where they hay
been found in their greatest purity.
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