Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art

by Henry Fairfield Osborn

CONTENTS

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[INTRODUCTION]
	Greek conceptions of man's origin	[1]
	Rise of anthropology	[3]
	Rise of archæolgy	[10]
	Geoligic history of man	[18]
	Geographic changes	[34]
	Climatic changes	[37]
	Migrations of mammals	[42]
[CHAPTER I]
	Ancestry of the anthropoid apes	[49]
	Pliocene climate, forests, and life	[60]
	Transition to the Pleistocene	[62]
	The first glaciation	[64]
	The First Interglacial Stage	[66]
	Early Pleistocene fauna	[69]
	The Trinil race	[73]
	Eoliths, or primitive flints	[84]
	The second glaciation	[86]
	The Second Interglacial Stage	[90]
	The Heidelberg race	[95]
	Migrations of the reindeer	[102]
	The third glaciation	[104]
[CHAPTER II]
	Date of the Pre-Chellean industry	[107]
	Geography and climate	[116]
	The river-drift stations	[119]
	Pre-Chellean industry	[126]
	The Piltdown race	[130]
	Mammalian life	[144]
	Chellean industry	[148]
	Chellean geography	[154]
	Palæolithic stations of Germany	[159]
	Acheulean industry	[161]
	The use of fire	[165]
	Acheulean industry	[166]
	The second period of arid climate	[173]
	Late Acheulean implements	[177]
	The Neanderthal race of Krapina	[181]
[CHAPTER III]
	Close of the Third Interglacial	[186]
	The Fourth Glacial Stage	[188]
	Arctic tundra life	[190]
	Environment of the Neanderthal race	[196]
	Mammals hunted by the Neanderthals	[202]
	Cave life	[211]
	The Neanderthal race	[214]
	Mousterian industry	[244]
	Disappearance of the Neanderthals	[256]
[CHAPTER IV]
	Opening of the Upper Palæolithic	[260]
	The Grimaldi race	[264]
	Arrival of the Crô-Magnons	[269]
	Upper Palæolithic cultures	[275]
	Upper Palæolithic races	[278]
	Geography and climate	[279]
	Mammalian life	[284]
	The Crô-Magnon race	[289]
	Burial customs	[303]
	Aurignacian industry	[305]
	The birth of art	[315]
	Origin of the solutrean culture	[330]
	Human fossils	[333]
	The Brünn race	[334]
	Solutrean industry	[338]
	Solutrean art	[347]
[CHAPTER V]
	Origin of the Magdalenian culture	[351]
	Magdalenian culture	[354]
	Magdalenian climate	[360]
	Mammalian life	[364]
	Human fossils	[376]
	Magdalenian industry	[382]
	Upper Palæolithic art	[392]
	Magdalenian engravings	[396]
	Magdalenian painting	[408]
	Art in the caverns	[409]
	Polychrome painting	[414]
	Magdalenian sculpture	[427]
	Extent of the Magdalenian culture	[434]
	Decline of the Magdalenian culture	[449]
	Crô-Magnon descendants	[451]
[CHAPTER VI]
	Close of the Old Stone Age	[456]
	Invasion of new races	[457]
	Mas d'Azil	[459]
	Fère-en-Tardenois	[465]
	Azilian-Tardenoisian culture	[466]
	Mammalian life	[468]
	Azilian-Tardenoisian industry	[470]
	The burials at Ofnet	[475]
	The new races	[479]
	Ancestry of European races	[489]
	Transition to the Neolithic	[493]
	Neolithic culture	[496]
	Neolithic fauna	[498]
	Prehistoric and historic races of Europe	[499]
	Conclusions	[501]
APPENDIX
NOTE
I.	Lucretius and Bossuet on the early evolution of man	[503]
II.	Horace on the early evolution of man	[504]
III.	Æschylus on the early evolution of man	[505]
IV.	'Urochs' or 'Auerochs' and 'Wisent'	[505]
V.	The Crô-Magnons of the Canary Islands	[506]
VI.	The Length of Postglacial time and the antiquity of the Aurignacian culture	[510]
VII.	The most recent discoveries of anthropoid apes and supposed ancestors of man in India	[511]
VIII.	Anthropoid apes discovered by Carthaginian navigators	[511]
	Bibliography	[513]
	Index	[533]

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