Artic Home of the Aryans by Lokamanya Bal ... - Mandhata Global

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THE ARCTIC HOME IN THE VEDAS
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CHAPTER I
PREHISTORIC TIMES
The Historic Period — Preceded by myths and traditions — The Science of
Mythology — Fresh impulse given to it by Comparative Philology — Unity
of Aryan races and languages — The system of interpreting myths, and the
theory of Asiatic Home — Recent discoveries in Geology and Archaeology
— Requiring revision of old theories — The Vedas still partially
unintelligible — New key to their interpretation supplied by recent
discoveries — The Ages of Iron, Bronze and Stone — Represent different
stages of civilization in Prehistoric times — The Ages not necessarily
synchronous in different countries — Distinction between Neolithic and
Paleolithic or new and old Stone Age — The Geological eras and periods —
Their correlation with the three Ages of Iron, Bronze and Stone —
Paleolithic Age probably inter-glacial — Man in Quaternary and Tertiary
eras — Date of the Neolithic Age — 5000 B.C. from lake dwellings — Peatmosses
of Denmark — Ages of Beech, Oak and Fir — Date of the
Paleolithic or the commencement of the Post-Glacial period — Different
estimates of European and American geologists — Freshness of fossil
deposits in Siberia — Favors American estimate of 8000 years — Neolithic
races — Dolicho-cephalic and Brachy-cephalic — Modern European races
descended from them — Controversy as to which of these represent the
Primitive Aryans in Europe — Different views of German and French writers
— Social condition of the Neolithic races and the primitive Aryans — Dr.
Schrader’s view — Neolithic Aryan race in Europe cannot be regarded as
autochthonous — Nor descended from the Paleolithic man — The question
of the original Aryan home still unsettled.
If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we
come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade
away into impenetrable darkness. In some cases, as in that of
Greece, the historic period goes back to 1000 B.C., while in the case
of Egypt the contemporaneous records, recently unearthed from
ancient tombs and monuments,