RM2AJ7Y64–A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . , and is of the eighth century e.g. ; but it is doubtfulwhether this axe can really be of so early a date. One thing isclear, that the number of Chinese implements at present known islarge enough to prove the existence of a Bronze age in the Far Eastagainst those Orientalists who formerly denied it; yet it is difficult. Fiii. 112.—Ilalijeit-bladu, China. to say how long an exclusively Bronze culture lasted, as thereappears to be still a difference of opinion as to the respective datesat which b
RM2AJ7XA3–A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . ments of flax, andwere able to work their own metal, as is proved by the occur-rence of moulds in which implements were cast. The discovery in Hungary, notably at Toszeg in the valley ofthe Theiss, of similar structures first founded in the Stone age,has been taken to indicate that the terramara civilization cameinto Italy from the basin of the Danube by the passes of theJulian Alps. The historical allusions to the existence of pile-dwellings in the Balkan peninsula and on the Phasis (p. 135)wo
RM2AJ7W2A–A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . keted hoe closely resembles examples from Cyprus(Case .J) and S. Eussia (Case H); and a number of arrow-headsfrom Naucratis, which was founded in the seventh century b.c,belong to the time when iron was in common use. MESOPOTAMIA 127 Case E. On the West side of this Case, besides the Chinese antiquitiesalready dealt with in connection with Siberia (p. 107), are a fewobjects of importance from Mesopotamia, Persia, and India, to theright. In Babylonia the copper implements (axes, lance-heads, &c.
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