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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y, and two of millet. Itappears that rye and oats were as yetunknown. Reverting to the animals of the lakeregions in prehistoric times we note twospecies of wild cattle, namely, the urusand the bison. The former seems tohave been reduced to partial domestica- 318 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. tion as early as the neolithic period, butno indication of such a fact has beenDeductions from found in the old stone age. the animal life of /p^g 1arp-est of the ani-the lake-d-well- & ingage. mals prevalent around the Swiss lakes were these two varieties ofwild oxen, the elk and the stag. Therhinoceros had disappeared and theurus had been much reduced from the served in the forests of Germany. It isnoticeable that the list of domestic ani-mals has been extended and confirmed.The horse has certainly become, in somemeasure, the servant of man, and sheephave been more positively reclaimedfrom the wild condition. It is thusevident that the mere barbarous life ofhunters and flesh-eaters was giving way
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SWISS LARK VILLAGE OF THE AGE OF BRONZE.—Drawn by Riou. great proportions which he bore in thetimes of the cave men. Looking backfrom our own point of view we note thatelks have not existed in Switzerland dur-ing the historical period, though theystill maintained an existence in the low-land forests as late as the Roman period.The ibex has also disappeared. Thesmaller of the wild animals enumeratedabove still prevail in their ancient habi-tat, and even the wild boar has been pre- to a higher and more rational mode ofexistence among these villagers of theSwiss lakes. It will be of interest to add a fewwords relative to the birds which cameby water or by air to the J J Species of birds habitations of the lake men. belonging to the . 1 , same epoch. The golden eagle circledabove them. The bones of at least fourvarieties of hawk have been discovered.Two kinds of owl were known, and two PRIMEVAL MAX.—LAKE DUELLERS OF SWITZERLAND. 319 varieties of crow. The common .starlingwas present,

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