| | PAGE |
| Preface | [5] |
| Introduction | [11] |
| I. | Factors of Climate and the Causes of Climatic Fluctuations | [15] |
| II. | The Climatic Record as a Whole | [32] |
| III. | Conditions before the Quaternary Ice Age | [42] |
| IV. | The Great Ice Age | [47] |
| V. | The Glacial History of Northern and Central Europe | [55] |
| VI. | The Mediterranean Regions during the Glacial Period | [68] |
| VII. | Asia during the Glacial Period | [76] |
| VIII. | The Glacial History of North America | [86] |
| IX. | Central and South America | [97] |
| X. | Africa | [103] |
| XI. | Australia and New Zealand | [109] |
| XII. | The Glaciation of Antarctica | [114] |
| XIII. | The Close of the Ice Age—The Continental Phase | [118] |
| XIV. | The Post-Glacial Optimum of Climate | [127] |
| XV. | The Forest Period of Western Europe | [136] |
| XVI. | The “Classical” Rainfall Maximum, 1800 b.c. to a.d. 500 | [140] |
| XVII. | The Climatic Fluctuations since a.d. 500 | [149] |
| XVIII. | Climatic Fluctuations and the Evolution of Man | [159] |
| XIX. | Climate and History | [162] |
| Appendix—The Factors of Temperature | [166] |
| Index | [169] |