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CONTENTS

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I.[General Nature of the Subject]11
II.[The World Before Man]18
III.[The Earliest Traces of Man]27
IV.[The Palanthropic Age]40
V.[Subdivisions and Conditions of the Palanthropic Age]69
VI.[End of the Palanthropic Age]85
VII.[The Early Neanthropic Age]94
VIII.[The Palanthropic Age in the Light of History]106
IX.[The Deluge of Noah]121
X.[Special Questions Respecting the Deluge]151
XI.[The Prehistoric and Historic in the East]164
XII.[The Neanthropic Dispersion]183
XIII.[Summary of Results]210
[Index]219

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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[Section at Trenton], on the Delaware, showing The Relation of the Stone Implements to the Glacial (?) Gravels (after Holmes)32
[Chipped Quartzites, Modern American] (after Holmes)33
[Flint Hache of the Ancient or Chellean Type, Aurillac] (after Carthaillac)41
[Cave of Goyet, Belgium] (Section after Dupont)47
[Lance Head formed of a Flint Flake] (Cave of Moustier). The Flat Face shows a Bulb of Percussion (after Falsan)49
[Outline of the Skull of the 'Old Man of Cro-magnon'] (after Christy and Lartet)54
[The First Skeleton found in the Mentone Caves] (after Rivière)57
[Handle of a Piercer], or Bodkin, in Bone, from Laugerie Basse, in Form of a Deer59
[Flint Flake Knife], found in the Hand of the 'Giant' Skeleton of Mentone (after Evans)59
[Neanderthal Skull]—two Outlines: the Outer giving the more Correct Form (from Science)60
[Skull of Canstadt Type] found at Spy, Belgium, by Fraipont and Lohest61
[10] [Outline of Mammoth], Carved on a Plate of Ivory, from the Cave of La Madeleine68
[Tooth of Cave Bear], with Engraving of a Seal, from a Collar found at Sordes, Pyrenees (after Carthaillac)71
[The Skeleton of Laugerie Basse], Dordogne, showing the Position of the Perforated Shells on the Limbs and Forehead (after Carthaillac)79
[Skull from Truchère], showing a peculiar Palanthropic Type allied to Neanthropic Races (after Quatrefages)82
[Flint Flakes of two Types], from Palanthropic and Neanthropic Caves in the Lebanon97
[Restoration of the Sepulchral Cave] of Frontal, Belgium (after Dupont)99
[Cromlech] at Fontanaccia, Corsica (after De Mortillet)105
[Map showing the Geographical and Geological Relations of the Site of Eden], as described in Genesis117
[Map showing Lines of Postdiluvian Migrations from Shinar], as in Genesis x.185
[Head illustrating the most Ancient Type of Cushite Turanian], from Tel-loh (after de Sarzec). The cap is perhaps an imitation of the antediluvian shell-caps, like that of the 'Man of Mentone'191

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THE MEETING-PLACE