LIST OF PLATES
| Page | ||
| Head of a Crô-Magnon Man | [Frontispiece] | |
| Examples of Lower Palæolithic Industries found in England | [12] | |
| Western Europe during the Third Inter-glacial Epoch | [16] | |
| Examples of Palæolithic Art | [56] | |
| Flint Lance Heads from Ireland | [80] | |
| Chipped and Polished Artifacts from Southern England | [80] | |
| The Ring of Stennis, Orkney | [96] | |
| Megaliths—Kit's Coty House, Kent; Trethevy Stone, Cornwall | [100] | |
| Enamelled Bronze Shield | [116] | |
| European Types | [124] | |
| Ruins of Pictish Tower at Carloway, Lewis | [128] | |
| A Scottish "Broch" (Mousa, Shetland Isles) | [132] | |
| A Sardinian Nuraghe | [136] | |
| Megaliths—Dolmen, near Birori, Sardinia; Tynewydd Dolmen | [160] | |
| One of the Great Trilithons, Stonehenge | [172] | |
| Bronze Urn and Cauldron | [204] | |
| Bronze Bucklers or Shields | [224] | |
List of Illustrations
| Page | |
| Chellean Coup de Poing or "Hand Axe" | [14] |
| Upper Palæolithic Implements | [21] |
| Skull of a Crô-Magnon Man: front and side views | [24] |
| Outline of a Mammoth | [33] |
| Necklace of Sea Shells | [39] |
| Geometric or "Pygmy" Flints | [54] |
| A Notable Example of late Magdalenian Culture | [58] |
| Horn and Bone Implements | [59] |
| Sketch of a boat, and crude drawing of a similar boat | [75] |
| Map of ENGLAND & WALES | [82] |
| Long-head (Dolichocephalic) Skull | [88] |
| Broad-head (Brachycephalic) Skull | [88] |
| Beads from Bronze Age Barrows | [105] |
| Weapons and Religious Objects | [114] |
| Cult Animals and "Wonder Beasts" | [154] |
| Diagram of the Gaelic Airts | [169] |
| Seal of City of Glasgow | [185] |
ANCIENT MAN IN
BRITAIN
CHAPTER I
Britons of the Stone Age
Caricatures of Early Britons—Enterprising Pioneers—Diseases and Folk-cures—Ancient Surgical Operations—Expert Artisans—Organized Communities—Introduction of Agriculture—Houses and Cooking Utensils—Spinning and Weaving—Different Habits of Life—The Seafarers.
The Early Britons of the Stone Age have suffered much at the hands of modern artists, and especially the humorous artists. They are invariably depicted as rude and irresponsible savages, with semi-negroid features, who had perforce to endure our rigorous and uncertain climate clad in loosely fitting skin garments, and to go about, even in the depth of winter, barefooted and bareheaded, their long tangled locks floating in the wind.