CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE INTRODUCTION. THE METHODS OF PRE HISTORY. ITS BEGINNINGS AND ITS PRINCIPLES ...... 1 I. FOOD ....... 33 II. Two GREAT DISCOVERIES. FIRE AND LANGUAGE ...... 47 III. THE FIRST INDUSTRIES .... 60 IV. THE DWELLING PLACE .... 75 V. CLOTHING AND WEAPONS OF DEFENCE . 90 VI. MAN AND THE ANIMALS .... 106 VII. THE BEGINNINGS OF AGRICULTURE . . 120 VIII. THE FIRST METHODS OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION ..... 134 IX. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE PEOPLES. WAR AND COMMERCE .... 149 X. THE ORIGIN OF THE ARTS . . . 165 XI. ...
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CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE INTRODUCTION. THE METHODS OF PRE HISTORY. ITS BEGINNINGS AND ITS PRINCIPLES ...... 1 I. FOOD ....... 33 II. Two GREAT DISCOVERIES. FIRE AND LANGUAGE ...... 47 III. THE FIRST INDUSTRIES .... 60 IV. THE DWELLING PLACE .... 75 V. CLOTHING AND WEAPONS OF DEFENCE . 90 VI. MAN AND THE ANIMALS .... 106 VII. THE BEGINNINGS OF AGRICULTURE . . 120 VIII. THE FIRST METHODS OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION ..... 134 IX. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE PEOPLES. WAR AND COMMERCE .... 149 X. THE ORIGIN OF THE ARTS . . . 165 XI. THE ORIGINS OF SCIENCE .... 188 XII. THE FIRST HUMAN SOCIETIES. THE CLAN AND TOTEMISM. THE PEOPLES HUNTERS, FISHERS AND NAVIGATORS, SHEPHERDS AND FARMERS. DISSOLUTION OF THE CLAN. FORMATION OF SOCIAL CLASSES . 194 XIII. CONCLUSION 220 INDEX 223 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PIG. 1. Engraving made for a dinner offered to Gabriel de Mortillet and giving an idea of the progress made by the science of prehistory in 1906 facing page 6 2. Mousterian scraper . . facing page 22 3. Pecten. After C. Fremont, Les outils prehis toriques Paris, 1901 . facing page 24 4. Lacustran remains from the Lausanne museum. Varieties of axes of the Bronze period . facing page 28 5. The escargotiere of Mechta-el-Arbi. The great 25-metre trench. Archaeological Society of Constantine, 1925 . facing page 34 6. Method of making fire by sawing Malabar coast facing page 50 7. Method of making fire by boring Rawaek. After C. Fremont, Origine et evolution des outils Paris, 1913 . . . facing page 50 8. Two skins used as bellows in Africa. After Fremont, Origine et evolution de la soufflerie Paris, 1917 . . . facing page 52 9. Houses on piles at Manila Voyage pittoresque de Dumont dUrville ... on page 80 10.Natives of Nouka-Hiva Voyage pittoresque on page 93 11. Savages in battle. Burial of a chief. Andr6 Thevet, Les singularity de la France antar clique autrement nomm rAmerique 1556, after the volume of John Grand Carteret entitled Lhistoire, la vie, les moeurs et la curiosite Paris, 1927. Note the instruments for kindling fire that are being placed in the grave ..... on page 103 vii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FIG. 12. Mammoth reconstructed Museum of Petrograd, as it was found in the frozen lands of Siberia Petit catalogue illustrt du Musde de Saint-Germain on page 108 13 Papuans tilling with pointed sticks. Photo, by Haddon .... facing page 122 14. Transporting an Assyrian colossus. From a bas relief at Kujunjik. After Layard, Nineveh and its Monuments . . - on page 186 15 Rope bridge on the Magdalena Colombia on page 140 16. Barrow with sails in China Voyage pittoresque, 1884 on page 144 17. Double canoe in Oceania Voyage pittoresque on page 145 18. First meeting of Capt. Cook with the natives of Oceania on page 150 19. Death of Capt. Cook ... on page 151 20. Colossal statues on Easter Island . on page 171 21. Fetishes of Hawaii Voyage pittoresque on page 172 22. Dolmen of Aubergenville reconstructed in the moat of the Chateau of Saint-Germain. facing page 208 28. Engraving made for a dinner to Gabriel de Mortillet in 1907 . . . on page 218 24. The different clans to the number of seven--are represented by their totems. Two series of lines, the one going from the eyes of the totems, the other from their necks and ending at the eye and the heart of the totem of the chief clan which is in front, indicate that all the petitioners hold the same views and have the same sentiments. As to theobject of the petition a line beginning at the eye of the principal petitioner indicates that it concerns the possession of little lakes marked in blue which lie beside a large river and near a road which is marked in white after Schoolcraft ......
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