The Progress., 1898-03-05
THE STORY or MAN.
1T is TOLD BY HIS. BONES, THE TOOLS
he USED AND HIS EQUIPMENTS.


dent Who Examines Them here Azat
Ologies That Must he Studied and Their
Principles Applied to Things D,scos cred.
Man leaves behind him when he dies
his bones his tools and his monuments,
and these arc the Things from which
have been derived all the items of our
know ledge Of him and his prGgress up
to the time when he learned to write.
And even in the historic age the story
would be much less complete but for;
his insert ptiOnS, his art and his relics. ,
Bones are of the greatest importance,
for Oftentimes man has left no other
tokens of his existence behind him. The
first study, therefore, to the arcbROlQ-,
gist is that of the comparative anatomy
of the human race. 1t is necessary to
distinguish human bones from those Of
animals, to study racial characters and
to determine the sex. Skulls must be
studied with the greatest minuteness,
for in them lie some of the most impor-
tant evidences of origin and progress.
1t is desirable also to study the animals,
for the bones Of men are often fOU nd
intermingled with those of the animals
that he had slain or that have conquered
him, and in the cases where the animal
is one now extinct a guess at the an
tiQuity of man S relics may be made.
The tools <which served in the rude
arts of early man were first of stone,
roughly fashioned to the needs of the
work, and later of metal. Mineralogy
is therefore an important study to the
archaologist. The stone relics furnish
a rough index to the amount of civiliza-
ton; they indicate in q crude way the
extent Of Observation-Disclosures; they
show how new ideas came to the races;
they serve i'll a manner TO distinguish
between different grades of antiquity,
and in many ways they are important.
The mineralogist who finds copper mug
gets in the graves of North Carolina.
prehistoric Indians knows that these
men had some manner Of communica-
ton. with the great lakes. .''': -
A knowledge of zoology is requisite
too. The presence of the horseshoe crab
in legends and traditions of the tribes
of our arid west could have been guessed
at only by one with acute perception,
and, the finding Of one of the shells as
fetch Of one of the tribes was a bright
exploit. It was evident that this relic,
had made it's journey from hand to hand
ONef S,UUO Of o,OtO u11SS OI country ab
time when it was exceedingly wild.
Then there are the she'll ornaments.
The present craze for the river pearl is
no new thing. AS far back as there is
any evidence Of the preferences Of man
the lustrous river shells have been at
tractive to him, and the distribution of
them has been exceedingly wide.
Then, there is the pottery. Here one
must study the beginnings of the useful
arts. He must know how the pots are
made, how in lieu or in advance Of the
potters wheel the aborigines had a
number Of ingenious ways of revolving
the vessel, how with fingers and co BIS
and hundred other implements the
primitive decoration was incised and
show with clays and ores of iron the first
crude dolors were made wherewith to
paint the earthenware. This study Of
old pots is exceedingly interesting and
Of the highest Importance. The materi-
ais are 'imperishable, and, while the
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