Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples

Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples is by the Marquis de Nadaillac, with 113 illustrations, translated by Nancy Bell (N. D’Anvers). The text reports that after twenty years’ experience in examining stones in their natural condition and others fashioned by the hand of man, an observer has no hesitation in pronouncing the flints and hatchets of Amiens and Abbeville as decidedly works of art as the knives of Sheffield. Boucher de Perthes defended his discoveries in books, in pamphlets, and in letters addressed to learned societies, and for twenty years he contended patiently against the indifference of some, and the contempt of others.

The text describes a megalith with an avenue of upright stones, a dolmen on the west, and in the centre a crypt surmounted by a conical pile of stones. The text says chulpas, generally of square or rectangular form, consist of a mass of unhewn stones faced outside with blocks of trachyte or basalt, painted red, yellow, or white.