The Corridors of Time . II HUNTERS ARTISTS By HAROLD PEAKE and HERBERT JOHN FLEURE OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1927 Oxford University Press London Edinburgh Glasgow Copenhagen New York Toronto Melbourne Capetown Bombay Calcutta Madras Shanghai Humphrey Milford Publisher to the UNIVERSITY in England at the OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS By John Johnson Printer to the University PREFACE THE cave paintings, sculptures, and rock drawings of our hunter forefathers in south-west Europe have attracted so much of the attention both of ...
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The Corridors of Time . II HUNTERS ARTISTS By HAROLD PEAKE and HERBERT JOHN FLEURE OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1927 Oxford University Press London Edinburgh Glasgow Copenhagen New York Toronto Melbourne Capetown Bombay Calcutta Madras Shanghai Humphrey Milford Publisher to the UNIVERSITY in England at the OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS By John Johnson Printer to the University PREFACE THE cave paintings, sculptures, and rock drawings of our hunter forefathers in south-west Europe have attracted so much of the attention both of scholars and, of the public that the period when they lived and learned to express themselves so remarkably has become for many the great pre-historic age. It is not our purpose to describe again their artistic efforts in detail, but rather to thinl of their life and to try to estimate its great importance for human progress, remembering Professor Elliot Smiths dictum that the period of the artist-hunters is the beginning of the Neanthropic Age, the age of modern man, and thus stands in contrast to all that went before, i. e. to the Palaean thropic Age. Did we but know more, we could doubtless see the modern races of man spreading afl l differentiating as they spread, learning to look before and after, dreaming of powers beyond the reach of the senses, and finding outlets for the springs of mind in many new directions. It is true that this early age of art ended in a collapse in Western Europe, but we begin to see its links with later time and have great faith that fresh discoveries will make those links ever more clear, perhaps in N. Africa, perhaps in S. W. Asia, probably in both. Negative conclusions arc peculiarly at the mercy of new discoveries, but it seems atpresent that in the day of the hunter-artists the great discovery of methods of foodproduction had not yet been made. This book of our series thus discusses the flowering of ancient culture prior to the rise of food production our two next between them will deal with the greater flowering of ancient civilization based on food production, and its decay. Four such culminations and declines can be distinguished in the story of man the culture of the hunter artists, the cultures of early Mesopotamia and Egypt Dynasties I-VI, the cultures of Crete, Babylonia and the Egyptian Empire, and finally the cultures of the Classical World and the Eastern Sages. We are too near the later move ments to generalize about them. Many thanks arc due to the authors, editors, and publishers of the following works and journals for permission to reproduce figures The Worst Journey in the World by A. Cherry-Garrard Constable Co., Ltd. for fig. i Ancient Hunters by W. J. Sollas Macmillan Co., Ltd. for figs. 2-4, 20 and 40 The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. liv, for figs. 7 and 8 Men of the Old Stone Age by H. F. Osborn Charles Scribners Sons for figs. 18 and 1 9 Fossil Man in Spain by H. Obermaier Yale University Press for figs. 22, 23, 27, 34, 43, 44, 48-50, 52-6, 59, and 66-9 Human Origins, 2 vols., by G. G. MacCurdy Appleton Co., New York for figs. 24-6, 28-33, 36-9, 41, 42, 45-7, 57 and 643 Antiquity of Man by A. Keith Williams and Norgatc, Ltd. for figs. 35 and 72 Textbook of European Archaeology, vol. i, by R. A. S. Macalister Cambridge University Press for figs. 60, 61 and 63 5 Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, vol. iii, for fig. 62 Report on the Excavations atGrimes Graves, Weeting, Norfolk Prehistoric Society of East Anglia for fig. 64c A Guide to the Antiquities of the Stone Age in the Depart ment of British and Mediaeval Antiquities, 2 e, British Museum for fig. 64b Die Diluviale vorxeit Deutschlands by A. Schliz E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart for fig. 70 and Proceedings of the Spelaeological Society, vol. ii, for fig. 73. H. J. E, P. May 1927. H. J. F. CONTENTS 1. The Retreat of the Ice I 2. Changes in the Coast-line . . . .12 3. Tundra, Steppe, and Forest . .,28 4. Late Palaeolithic Industries . . - 39 5...
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Publisher:
Yale university press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press
Published:
1927
Language:
English
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1701208266
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Fine. No dust jacket. Ex-Library. fine / no dj; spine tight. Corridors of time. II. First printing. vi, 154 p. illus. (incl. maps) 21 cm. Printed in Great Britain. "Books" at end of most of the chapters. Preface; Contents; illustrations; list of illustrations; index; many illustrations
