Maori and Polynesian, Their Origin, History, and Culture (Classic Reprint)

The Footprints of Primitive Man in Monumental Stone Paragraph (i) Written history is ephemeral. (2) Earth-preserved history lasts longer. (3) The record of man in the rocks of Java has lasted nearly a million years. (4) Palaeolithic man spans hundreds of thousands of years, neolithic man only tens of thousands. (5) Neolithic man specialised into megalithic man thousands of years ago. (6) Megalithic man started fromM auritania along the Atlantic and Baltic coasts of Europe, and crossed to Korea through the north of Central A sia. (7) From Korea he went into Micronesia ;(8) thence intoS amoa and Tonga. (9) In Eastern Polynesia he has left more traces. (10) A nother megalithic track goes along the south of Asia into theM alay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java, and there stops. (11) The northern route is fairly continuous across the Pacific into Central America and Peru. (12) It is the track of one division of mankind. (13) This division is Caucasian, not negroid or Mongoloid. (14) For it is also maritime and longvoyaging. (15) The track probably proves a line of inland seas from the Caspian to Lake Baikal. (16) A maritime and Caucasian people therefore found its way into Polynesia, and thence into A merica. CHAPTER II The Meaning of the Colossal-stone Record .. Paragraph (i) The myth-making faculty interprets the megalithic monuments with great variety. (2) But they originate in ancestor-worship, (3) which first abandoned the primeval cave-dwelling to the spirit, and afterwards built a colossal house for it in imitation of the cave. (4) Hence they were the primitive altars and temples.
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