stone-wielding

Updated: June 21, 2025

In Siberia and the American Southwest are tribes that correspond socially with the barbarians of Europe described by Greek and Roman writers. The American Indians discovered by the earliest colonists, the Polynesians of a century ago, and the Fuegians of recent decades provide counterparts of the ancient stone-wielding people who were the savage ancestors of European barbarians.

Henry Edward Crampton - The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope