"The mere barbarians, the chippers of rude weapons and tools of stone, who lived in North Britain at the time of the Roman conquest, — the men who had been driven north, ages before the Roman occupation, by from the mainland of Europe, are quite recent as compared with the far-off time when primeval savages lived in what is now Britain. The barbarians who preceded the ancient civilisations of , , and are modern as compared with the remote antiquity of the savages whose bones, weapons, and tools are here described and sketched."
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Worthington George Smith
(25 March 1835 – 27 October 1917) was an English , archaeologist, , , and . He was the president of the for a one-year term from 1904 to 1905. Smith was awarded a in 1907.
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