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The Bronze Age 13
fertile agricultural lands. For success with herds and
flocks the bronze-age people inscribed pictures of do-
mestic animals, and with wild animals for the success
of the hunter.
The Tombs.
The burial places
from the later
bronze age con-
’tain remains of
burnt bones, as
’the practice of
’cremation spread
over the greater
part of Europe.
This would indi-
cate that the peo-
ple now believed
that the soul
could exist with-
out the body.
This custom pre-
vailed in the
^North for about
2,000 years. An
Arabian traveler
’Writes that he Rock Inscription. Pound in BohuslSn.
>once witnessed in
Russia the burning of the dead body of a northern
sailor in his ship. When he exclaimed his surprise at
this he was answered by one who participated in the
obsequies: "You Arabs are a stupid people, you take
the body of a loved one and place it in the ground,
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