Excerpt from Our Homeland Prehistoric Antiquities: And How to Study Them

Almost all the books dealing with the science of prehistoric archaeology, are works for the advanced student, who is assumed to be familiar with the more elementary portions of the subject. This assumption is not always justified. As a consequence, in his early days of collecting specimens of the handiwork of prehistoric man, the author obtained little help from books and was compelled to rely on his own observa tions.

The following pages have been written at the suggestion of Mr. Prescott Row, of the Homeland Association, in the hope that they may supply the needs of the beginner, and enable him to discriminate between stones shaped by natural forces and those chipped by man, and to classify them according to present knowledge. Reference is also made to early track ways, barrows, pottery, ¿int-mining, megalithic remains, dwellings and camps. In the glossary an attempt has been made to define some of the loosely-applied technical terms, and to give such information as will enable the reader to comprehend more advanced books.

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