Man, Volume 4Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1904 - Anthropology |
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Page 6 - ... the ultimate man will be one whose private requirements coincide with public ones. He will be that manner of man who, in spontaneously fulfilling his own nature, incidentally performs the functions of a social unit ; and yet is only enabled so to fulfil his own nature by all others doing the like.
Page 156 - The chambers both contained burnt bones, one the fragment of an unburnt skeleton, and the short cist an unburnt interment. The chambers yielded flakes and a knife of flint, broken fragments of quartz pebbles, and flakes of pitchstone and pottery. This last provided the key to the period to which the chambers belonged, for in one a typical piece of chamber pottery was found, with fragments of a second ; in the other, fragments of four vessels were recovered, of the ' beaker ' or ' drinking-cup
Page 155 - The oldest period of the Danish Stone Age, only recently discovered, is earlier in time than the ' kitchen-middens ' and much anterior to the dolmens, from which the bulk of the well-known Danish flint implements have been derived. In a peat-bog in Western Zeeland, near a small harbour called Mullerey, not far from the Great Belt, were found many objects of stone and wood of a primitive order, evidently from an early part of the Stone Age. A careful study of these objects and of their position in...
Page 70 - Den of Islam, but with the primeval society he set himself to describe. Right Elizabethan or not, no word of Doughty's best descriptions of the desert and the desert folk can be spared. Each falls inevitable and indispensable to its place as in all great style; and each strikes full and true on every reader who has seen, be it ever so little, the dusty steppe and the black booths of hair.
Page 152 - Knossos shows the less decadent forerunners of this style, though still later than thoso of the last Palace period, the end of which is thus carried back at least to the close of the sixteenth century BC The third Late Minoan Period may thus be roughly dated between 1500 and 1100 BC The second Late Minoan Period receives its fullest illustration in the remains of the latest Palace period at Knossos. The fine ' Palace style ' which had here grown up, with its strong architectonic elements, common...
Page 111 - ... same powers. On the death of a distinguished man his ghost retains the powers that belonged to him in life, in greater activity and with stronger force; his ghost therefore is powerful and worshipful, and so long as he is remembered the aid of his powers is sought and worship is offered him.
Page 155 - ... which the bulk of the well-known Danish flint implements have been derived. In a peat-bog in Western Zeeland, near a small harbour called Mullerey, not far from the Great Belt, were found many objects of stone and wood of a primitive order, evidently from an early part of the Stone Age. A careful study of these objects and of their position in the bog proved that the prehistoric inhabitants who left or dropped those implements must have been dwelling on rafts in the middle of a lake. It was indeed...
Page 5 - What differences of mental mass and mental complexity, if any, existing between males and females, are common to all races ? Do such differences vary in degree, or in kind, or in both ? Are there reasons for thinking that they...
Page 75 - ... considerable deviation may occur in any of the numerous measurements which we are in the habit of taking. And for many combinations of deviations, one of which is large while the others are small, the frequency of the type will remain the same. We find, therefore, as a result of these considerations, that the most frequent types, and for this reason the types which we must consider as inside the limits of physiological variations, are not by any means those which in all respects are enlarged...
Page 153 - ... were seals of ivory and steatite, a miniature gold bird, and small models of a dagger and of sickles. A very early burial-place, discovered by Mr. Dawkins near the headland of Kastri, contained beaked jugs of an exaggerated pattern and a remarkable clay model of a boat. A later cemetery, containing larnax burials, yielded bronze implements, beads, and vases like those in the palace magazines. In searching for tombs south of the town Mr.