Lake habitations and pre-historic remains in the turbaries and marl-beds of northern and central Italy / by Bartolomeo Gastaldi ; translated from the Italian and edited by Charles Harcourt Chambers.

Date:
1865
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Credit: Lake habitations and pre-historic remains in the turbaries and marl-beds of northern and central Italy / by Bartolomeo Gastaldi ; translated from the Italian and edited by Charles Harcourt Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    INTEODUCTION TO THE EDITION OF 1862. Struck by the importance which might be attained in Italy, by researches directed to prove the antiquity of the human race, the existence of habitations constructed of wood, anteriorly to -the Eoman and Etruscan epochs, upon piles in the waters of the lakes and marshes,—to prove, in a word, that our country, like those farther to the north, was inhabited by the races of the ages of stone and bronze,—I hastened, towards the end of the year 1860, to write a short notice of the discoveries of objects of high antiquity, which had been made up to that time, in Northern and Central Italy. I hastened, I say, to write that notice,* in order to advise the students of our country of the interest which such researches might have, and to animate them to de- * Published among the Transactions of the Italian Society of Natural Science at Milan, with the title of Cenni su alcune Armi cli Pietra e di Bronzo trovate nell' Imolese nelle Marniere del Mo- denese e del Parmigiano, e nelle Torbiere della Lombardia e del Piemonte.—(Notes upon certain Arms of Stone and Bronze found in the country near Imola, in the Marl-beds of Modena and Parma, and in the Turbaries of Lombardy and Piedmont.)