Identifier: ridpathshistoryo01ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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PRIMEVAL MAX.—LAKE DWELLERS OF SWITZERLAND. 311 epoch been driven down through the which houses and defenses were erected,water. Along with these sharpened i The name given to this floating residencepoints of treescame up a largevariety of deerhorn and stoneimplements ofprimitive work-manship. T h efact that someaboriginal peoplehad inhabited thisshore was thusmade clear, andscientific explora-tions, under thedirection of Dr.Keller and otherantiquaries, soonextended andverified the dis-coveries. Before proceed-ing to describethe utensils andweapons revealedin the lake bot-toms of Switzer-land, it is properto note the anal-ogous resultsattained in Ire-land. The man-ner of over-waterbuilding is heresomewhat differ-ent from thatpracticed by theprehistoric moun-taineers. Amongthe primitive peo-ple inhabiting theIrish lake coun-
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try the plan was to construct a plat-form on the water, and on this platformto create a sort of artificial island upon was Crannoge, and the remnants of suchstructures are easily discoverable to thepresent time. 312 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. The crannoges were the strongholdsof the- primitive Irish chiefs, to whichLikeness to they betook themselves in Highland refu- f s the Highlanders gees; the cran- ° noge findings. Gf a later day to theircastles. These prehistoric scats are veryrich in implements and weapons andother works of the clans by which theywere inhabited. But it is in evidencefrom the discoveries made in the cran-nges that they are of a much later datethan the cave dwellings of the Continentor even the lake dwellings of Switzer-land. There are instances in which thecontents of the Irish crannoge, as for in-stance that of Dunshaughlin, have beendigged up by the wagon load and dis-tributed on the shore to enrich the soil.In the support of the platform abovethe water

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