Figs. 12, 13, 14.—Flint Implements of the Neolithic Period. (From _Danish Arts_.) [Illustration: Fig. 15.] [Illustration: Fig. 16.] Figs. 15, 16.—Flint Implements of the Neolithic Period. (From _Danish Arts_.) [Illustration: Fig. 17.] [Illustration: Fig. 18.] [Illustration: Fig. 19.] [Illustration: Fig. 20.] Figs. 17 to 20.—Polished Stone Hammers and Celts, Neolithic Period. (From _Danish Arts_.) [Illustration: Fig. 21.] [Illustration: Fig. 22.] [Illustration: Fig. 23.] [Illustration: Fig. 24.] Figs. 21 to 24.—Pottery of the Neolithic Age. (From _Danish Arts_.) The cultivation of land, the breeding and rearing of domestic animals, plaiting, and weaving was known and practised by these people. Amber, bone beads, and shells were used as personal adornments. Their burials were with or without cremation. The burial-places of these people are found all over the world, in Europe, Japan, India, and other parts of Asia, and in North America. They are named “Cromlechs” (stone circles), “Dolmen” (stone tables) (Fig. 25), “Menhir” (long stone). The burial-place, called a “Tumulus,” is a great mound of earth, usually containing a burial chamber constructed in stone in the centre of the mound. The illustrations of the “Menhir” (long stones) (Fig. 26), and of the so-called Giants’ Tombs (Fig. 27) belong to the Stone age, and are found in the island of Sardinia. [Illustration: Fig. 25.—Dolmen at Hesbon (P. & C.).] [Illustration: Fig. 26.—Menhirs, Sardinia (P. & C.).] We have seen that the Palæolithic men were hunters, and evidently had a lot of leisure time on their hands, which they turned to good account by devoting some of it to their artistic culture; while the Neolithic men were more of a race of mechanics and farmers, who had neither time nor inclination for the cultivation of art, but were altogether more scientific and mechanical than the men of the Palæolithic period. [Illustration: Fig. 27.—Giants’ Tomb, Sardinia (P. & C.).] CHAPTER IV. THE BRONZE AGE.