Prehistoric Objects Classified and Described (Classic Reprint)

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from Prehistoric Objects Classified and DescribedAmong Indians of the central Mississippi valley continual struggle with hardship and privation was the price of exist ence. Even amid comparatively favorable surroundings merely to live was a problem for old and young alike. Though many children were born. Families were generally small, as only the healthiest or those who received better care than the average could hope to reach maturity. A large majority of remains found in the burial places are those of young children. Con fronted from infancy to old age with inclement winters in cold wigwams alternate gluttony and starvation, improper treat ment in sickness or accident, perils of the chase, helplessness in time of epidemic, attacks of foes, - their lives were never secure for a day. Their revengeful disposition, leading to con stant warfare, prevented the formation of settled communities. Nor could they have risen higher in the social scale, for they had no large domestic animals and they knew nothing of iron.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.