Prehistoric man

by W. L. H. Duckworth

CONTENTS

CHAP.		PAGE
I.	The Precursors of Palaeolithic Man	[1]
II.	Palaeolithic Man	[17]
III.	Alluvial Deposits and Caves	[63]
IV.	Associated Animals and Implements	[85]
V.	Human Fossils and Geological Chronology	[112]
VI.	Human Evolution in the light of recent research	[127]

	Table	Ato	face	p.	85
	„	Bto	„	„	118

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FIG.		PAGE
1.	Outline tracings of skulls of Pithecanthropus etc. (From Dubois)	[5]
2.	Outline tracings of Jawbones, (A) Mauer (B) ancient Briton	[11]
3.	Tooth from Taubach: surface of crown. (From Nehring)	[22]
4.	Tooth of Chimpanzee. (From Nehring)	[22]
5, 6.	Tooth from Taubach: inner and outer sides. (From Nehring)	[23]
7.	Human skull from Krapina. (From Birkner)	[25]
8.	Tracings of teeth from Krapina and Mauer. (From Kramberger)	[29]
9.	Human skull from La Chapelle-aux-Saints. (From Birkner)	[33]
10.	Outline tracings of skull from La Chapelle-aux-Saints etc. (From Boule)	[35]
11.	Contours of skulls, (A) New Guinea man (B) European woman	[36]
12.	Outline tracing of human skull from Le Moustier	[40]
13.	Outline tracings of jawbones from Mauer and Le Moustier	[41]
14.	Outline tracings of jawbones from Mauer, La Naulette, etc. (From Frizzi)	[42]
15.	Outline tracings of jawbones, (A) ancient Briton (B) Le Moustier (C) Mauer	[43]
16.	Outline tracings of the Forbes Quarry (Gibraltar) skull. (From Sera)	[48]
17.	Human skull of the Grimaldi-type. (From Birkner)	[51]
18.	Outline tracings of skulls from Galley Hill etc. (From Klaatsch)	[58]
19.	Section of the strata at Trinil in Java. (From Dubois)	[64]
20.	View of the Mauer sand-pit. (From Birkner)	[65]
21.	Section of the Krapina rock-shelter. (From Birkner)	[69]
22.	Plan of the cave at La Chapelle-aux-Saints. (From Boule)	[72]
23.	Two sections of the Grotte des Enfants, Mentone. (From Boule)	[77]
24.	Chart of the relative duration of Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene time. (From Penck)	[107]
25.	Chart of oscillations of snow-level in the Glacial period. (From Penck)	[119]
26.	Outline tracings of skulls of Pithecanthropus etc. (From Dubois)	[129]
27.	Position of Palaeolithic Man in the scale of evolution. (From Cross)	[131]
28.	Thigh-bones arranged to illustrate Klaatsch's theory.	[136]
29.	The human skeleton found beneath the Boulder-clay at Ipswich. (From a drawing by Dr Keith, reproduced with permission)	[153]

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CHAPTER I
THE PRECURSORS OF PALAEOLITHIC MAN