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IMPORTANCE OF THE SCIENCE [[strikethrough]] AND OF THE DEPARTMENT [[/strikethrough]] OF PREHISTORIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
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Prehistoric Anthropology is a new science. During the past eighteen hundred years the Christian, and consequently, the civilized world, has, until the beginning of the XIX century, lived on in the belief that man's appearance upon earth dated no more than 4000 years before the commencement of our ear, and was without knowledge of the prehistoric man, nor did it have a suspicion of his existence.
The wise men of Denmark in the early parts of the XIX century, while investigating and studying the runic characters and legends engraved upon their ruined stones and in their sagas in the early part of the XIX century, discovered evidences of a human occupation of their country earlier than any of which they had theretofore known or suspected. This discovery began about 1806, and in 1836 Mr. Thompson, the renowned Danish archaeologist,