Iron age, Prehistoric; see Prehistoric Iron age.
Iron, its introduction into Europe, 423; superseded bronze among the Greeks, 424; first discovery of, 424; used in Britain in the days of Cæsar, 425.
Ironstone implement, Robin Hood Cave (fig.), 182.
Italy, table of Meiocene classification in, 39; river-drift implements found in, 164; upper Pleiocene mammalia of, 83.
Ivory of mammoth used by Cave-men, 224; used in tenth century, 107.
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Jamieson, on the Voluta Lamberti shell in Red Crag, 73; Glacial period (note), 115, 116; mammoth in Scotland before Glacial period, 152.
Javelin-head, flint, Laugerie-Haute (fig.), 200; javelin-heads, Winterbourne Stoke (figs.), 365.
"Jockey Cap," stalagmite, 264.
Jones, on stone scrapers used by the Shoshones, 180.
Judd, on the volcanoes of the Eocene age, 24; of the Meiocene age, 44; on the volcano of Mull, 45; on the volcanoes of the Western Islands in the Pleiocene age, 75.
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Kainozoic strata; see Tertiary.
Kew, reindeer and bisons found in deposits at, 156.
Keller, Lake-dwellings cited (note), 291, 292; on Lake-dwellings of Bronze age, 388; on bronzes from western Switzerland, 411.
Kellett, on remains found at Eschscholtz Bay, 240.
Kent's Hole, discoveries by Rev. J. MacEnery, 291; Palæolithic men of, 194; implements in (figs.), 194, 195, 196.
Knotted-rope pattern, Fordoun Church, Kincardineshire (fig.), 444.
Kesslerloch cave, 220, 221.
Kinahan and Close, glaciation of Ireland (note), 116; on existence of Irish elks in peat (note), 258; on lake-dwellings, 353.
King, on River-drift man in India, 166.
Kennet, long barrow at (fig. ), 285.
Kits Cotty House, 287.
Kivik, tomb at (fig. ), 395.
Königsberg, amber region of, 417.
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Lalande, absence of pottery in French caves, 209.
Lake-dwellings, Neolithic, 291; of the Bronze age, 352, 388; in Ireland, 353.
Lancashire coast, submergence of, 252.
Lancecolate flakes, breccia, Robin Hood Cave (figs.), 183.
Land mammalia and birds of upper Meiocenes, 59.
Language, the witness of, 331.
Landesque, Abbé, on sketch of antler from Laugerie-Basse, 222.
Larnand, bronze-hoard found at, 384.
Lartet, E., on the ape, Dryoypithecus Fontani, 58; on the mammoth, 106; on cut bones from St. Brest (note), 133; remains of animals found in cavern at Baume, 144; on remains of African elephant in Spain, 164; on the Palæolithic age, 199.
Lartet, L. , on age of human skeletons, 242; on human remains from La Madelaine, 225; from Duruthy, 226.
Late Bronze age, 381; articles of, in Britain, 347. See Bronze age.
Late Pleistocene; see Pleistocene, late.
Leaf-shaped arrow-heads found in chambered long barrows (figs.), 288.
Lemming, Norwegian (Myodes torquatus), 99; arctic (M. lemmus), 99
Lemuroid, upper Eocene mammal, (fig.), 33.
Lemurs appear in Europe and America during Eocene period, 90.
Level not an absolute test of age, 142.
Lignite bed, lake of Zurich, 120; of Dürnten presents no traces of man, 145.
Ligurians, relation of, to Iberians, 333.
Living and extinct forms, percentage of, in the Tertiary strata, 10, 11.
Log houses in Ireland, Neolithic age, 269.
Long barrow at West Kennet restored by Thurnam (fig.), 284; barrow at Uley, Gloucestershire (fig.), 285.
Lower Eocene; see Eocene.
Lower Meiocene; see Meiocene (lower).
Luard, fossil mammals remains found at Windsor by, 155.
Lubbock, Sir John, on cut bones found at St. Prest, 133; on rarity of human remains (note), 167; on Avebury, 371.
