Bronze not the best metal—Difficulties attending the discovery of
Iron—Probable steps in this discovery—Where this discovery was
first made—Known in Ancient Egypt—How this knowledge would
spread—Iron would not drive out Bronze—The primitive
Iron-worker—The advance in government—Pottery and ornaments of
the Iron Age—Weapons of early Iron Age—The battle-field of
Tilfenau—Trade of early Iron Age—Invention of Money—Invention of
Alphabetic Writing—Invasion of the Germanic Tribes—The cause of
the Dark Ages—Connection of these three ages—Necessity of
believing in an Extended Past—Attempts to determine the
same—Tiniere Delta—Lake Bienne—British Fen-lands—Maximum and
Minimum Data—Mr. Geikie’s conclusions—The Isolation of the
paleolithic Age.