Ogden Daily Standard | 1893-03-12 | Page 3 | History from Barted Implements

history hurled certain articles made of stone dug up or found in caves such as rudo hatchets and hammers and spearheads spear heads of course they did not make themselves and of course they did not come there by accident somebody made them and somebody used them they were found in connection with the bones of animals clearly the food of tho people who lived in those days many of theae animals like those with which we are familiar while others represented species now extinct these are your facts and it only remains to formulate a theory this was not easily done for scientific men differed materially in opinion A goodly number insisted that the race was created not more thin years ago and then they were all befogged the great antiquity of the race had to be conceded before any satisfactory progress could be made from the stone age the race emerged and entered what is known as the bronze age and thence it passed into the iron age though there is a difference of opinion here for alsborg maintained that iron was the first metal used the rarity of the discovery of iron objects ho urged is accounted for by the caso with which such objects are destroyed by rust alexander bartrand suggests that it would lo 10 11 v krive error to adopt the theory t to which nil humlin randd havu t li iotis tho same development ard i e gone through bis b i s of ciul conditions 1 I he 1 ld i all natu tor dilation it iiii and monument of prehistoric