 | Building stones - 1893 - 814 pages
...who have made a life study of the subject, divide the existence of man into three periods, to-wit: The age of stone, the age of bronze and the age of iron. It is a significant fact, as showing its great importance, that first in the list comes stone.... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - Science - 1897 - 788 pages
...travellers and others in various parts of the globe, it may now be possible. Of the three great periods — the Age of Stone, the Age of Bronze, and the Age of Iron — into which the history of art has been divided, the Old World, at the commencement of the... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, Forrest Morgan, E. T. Roe, George Edwin Rines, Nathan Haskell Dole, Edward Thomas Roe, Thomas Campbell Copeland - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1903 - 940 pages
...Worsaae, and others, have divided the period during which man has existed on the earth into three — the Age of Stone, the Age of Bronze, and the Age of Iron. During the first-mentioned of these he is supposed to have had only stone for weapons, etc. Sir... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1863 - 712 pages
...insisting simply that it remains not proven. Paleontologists distinguish three ages of man in Europe : the age of stone, the age of bronze, and the age of iron, so called from the material of which implements were made during these 'respective periods. At... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1918 - 832 pages
...Worsaae and others, have divided the period during which man has existed on the earth into three — the Age of Stone, the Age of Bronze and the Age of Iron. During the first mentioned of these he is supposed to have had only stone for weapons, etc. Sir... | |
 | James Mackinnon - Industries - 1920 - 200 pages
...antiquaries distinguish three stages in the preChristian civilization of northern Britain, which they term the age of Stone, the age of Bronze, and the age of Iron. There are no definite remains in Scotland of the earlier or palaeolithic stone age. The men of... | |
 | Franklin Charles Palm - Europe - 1927 - 120 pages
...Europe, Vol. I, pp. 1-16. II. ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS 'A. Division of the early history of mankind into the Age of Stone, the Age of Bronze, and the Age of Iron. 1. Impossibility of fixing dates for the Stone, the Bronze, and the Iron Age; in some parts of... | |
 | Science - 1897 - 798 pages
...travellers and others in various parts of the globe, it may now be possible. Of the three great periods — the Age of Stone, the Age of Bronze, and the Age of Iron — into which the history of art has been divided, the Old World, at the commencement of the... | |
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Europe, called the age of stone, the age of bronze, and the age of iron, is purely relative, like the chronology of the geological formations. 
