Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1917 — Lacustral Settlements. [ARTICLE]

Lacustral Settlements.

The lacustral settlements were places of refuge for a pastoral, and agricultural people, and the light and dryness that characterized the dwellings show a step in advance toward more permanent abodes. In this period science places the beginning of civilization. By these lacustrine men spinning and weaving were invented. Agriculture was born among them; animals were domesticated —the ox, the cow, the sheep, the goat, the dog. The uses of metal were discovered, and the age of iron was ushered In. Habitations similar to these still exist tn the East Indies, and among the Amazonian tribes of Maracalbd. They existed also in Lake Prasias, In Thrace, during the time of Herodotus, the Greek historian.