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| Preface | [vii] |
| CHAPTER |
| I. | The Coming of Man | [3] |
| | THE ANCESTORS OF MAN. THE PRIMATES AND ARBOREALLIFE. THE DESCENT FROM THE TREES.PITHECANTHROPUS. THE ORIGINAL HOMELAND.HUMAN RACES AND EARLIEST MIGRATIONS. THEARRIVAL IN EUROPE. THE GREAT ICE AGE. HEIDELBERGMAN. NEANDERTHAL AND CRO-MAGNONRACES. | |
| II. | The Period of Transition. Shell-Heaps | [36] |
| | THE RETREAT OF THE GLACIERS. DANISH SHELL-HEAPS.MUGEM. MAGELMOSE. RINNEKALNS.AZILIAN-TARDENOISIAN EPOCH OF TRANSITION.CAMPIGNY. THE FIRST IMMIGRANTS. | |
| III. | Land Habitations | [53] |
| | NEOLITHIC CAVE-DWELLERS. PIT-DWELLINGS ANDHUTS. GROSGARTACH. FORTIFIED VILLAGES,FOREST, AND STEPPE. LOESS. | |
| IV. | Lake-Dwellings | [69] |
| | PLATFORMS AND HOUSES. DOG, CATTLE, PIGS,SHEEP. CULTIVATED PLANTS. FRUITS, SPINNINGAND WEAVING-EPOCHS. | |
| V. | A Glance Eastward | [91] |
| | CRADLE OF NEOLITHIC CULTURE. BABYLONIA.ANAU, SUSA. THE BEGINNINGS OF AGRICULTURE.PLATEAUS AND PIEDMONT ZONES. HOE-TILLAGE.THE PLOUGH. SUMMARY. | |
| VI. | Megaliths | [114] |
| | DOLMENS. “GALLERY CHAMBERS.” MENHIRS.DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD. INCINERATION. | |
| VII. | Neolithic Industries | [131] |
| | DRESS. FLINT AND BONE IMPLEMENTS. AXES.MATTOCKS. FLINT MINES. SALT. GOLD. COPPER.TRADE. WARES. AMBER. TRADE-ROUTES. POTTERY,BANDED, CORDED AND CALCYCIFORM, INCRUSTEDPOTTERY. | |
| VIII. | Neolithic Chronology | [160] |
| | FINAL RETREAT OF GLACIERS. YOLDIA EPOCH.ANCYLUS EPOCH—LITTORINA DEPRESSION. DATEOF BEGINNING AND OF END OF NEOLITHIC PERIOD.FOREST SUCCESSIONS. MAGELMOSE AND SHELL-HEAPS.SUCCESSIVE TYPES OF AXE. CHARTS. | |
| IX. | Neolithic Peoples and Their Migrations | [179] |
| | PALÆOLITHIC RACES AND MIGRATIONS. MEDITERRANEANRACE. ROUTES OF MIGRATION. AFRICAN,MEDITERRANEAN, SOUTH RUSSIAN STEPPE ROUTE.NEOLITHIC PEOPLES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION.NORDIC PEOPLES. THE DANUBE VALLEY. THE“MELTING-POT” OF CENTRAL EUROPE. PIONEER LIFE. | |
| X. | Neolithic Religion | [206] |
| | PALEOLITHIC RELIGION, THE AGE OF WONDER:NEOLITHIC RELIGION AND EXPERIENCE. RITUAL.TABOO AND TRIBAL RESPONSIBILITY. GREEK MYSTERIES.THE COMING OF THE OLYMPIANS, ANDTHE RETURN OF THE ANCIENT CULTS, SOURCESOF THEIR VITALITY. CULT OF THE GODDESS ANDMOTHER-RIGHT. RELATION TO AGRICULTURE.SOCIAL POSITION OF WOMEN. | |
| XI. | Progress | [228] |
| | THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE BALTIC. SOURCEOF PROGRESS NOT IN WAR. AGRICULTURE. HOMETRAINING. THE NEIGHBORHOOD. RELIGION. PHILOSOPHY.MINGLING OF CULTURES AND PEOPLES. | |
| XII. | The Coming of the Indo-Europeans | [246] |
| | ARYAN AND EUROPEAN LANGUAGES. ORIGINALLANGUAGE; SPREAD AND MODIFICATIONS. EARLIESTMIGRATIONS. THE ACHÆANS. THE AGE OFHEROES. CITY-STATES IN GREECE. ABSORPTIONOF INVADERS. HOMELAND. INDO-EUROPEAN RELIGION.PERSISTENCE OF NEOLITHIC SURVIVALS.FOLK-LORE AND FAIRY-TALE. COMMON PEOPLE.LEGISLATION. THE CHURCH. LIFE CURRENTS. | |
| | Bibliography | [293] |
| | Index | [309] |