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CONTENTS
PART I.—ANTHROPOLOGY
Palæolithic Man in Europe, with Supplementary Chapter on the Transition Period
CHAPTER I
Man's Place in the Organic World
- Introductory—Descent from Fossil Ancestors—Degeneration—Correspondence between the Senses and the Environment—The Line of Man's Ascent—Embryology—Man and the Anthropoid Apes—A Retrospect—Man's Career a New Departure—Erect Posture—Cranial Development—Two Lines of Investigation—Prognathism—Biblical account of Creation
Pages 3-25
CHAPTER II
Man and Glacial Phenomena
- Great Ice Age—Stone Implements—Fauna—Inhabited Caves—Classification of Materials—Chelléen, Acheuléen, Moustérien, Aurignacien, Solutréen, and Magdalénien Epochs
Pages 26-54
CHAPTER III
Cave Researches (Britain)
- Methods of Investigation—Authenticity of Objects—Kent's Cavern—Windmill Hill Cavern—Cresswell Caves—Hyæna Den of Kirkdale—West of England and Welsh Caves—The Paviland Cave and Human Skeleton—Other Gower Caves—Wookey Hole
Pages 55-67
CHAPTER IV
Chronological Problems and Land Oscilations
- Introductory—Station of Veyrier—Cave of Béthenas—Cavern of Freudenthal—Kesslerloch Cave—Schussenried Open-air Station—Schweizersbild—Land Oscillations—Hoxne—Brick-earth—General remarks
Pages 68-87
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