Table of Contents:
  • Greek conceptions of man's origin
  • Rise of anthropology
  • Rise of archaeology
  • Geologic history of man
  • Geographic changes
  • Climatic changes
  • Migrations of mammals
  • Ancestry of the anthropoid apes
  • Pliocene climate, forests, and life
  • Transition to the Pleistocene
  • The first glaciation
  • The first interglacial stage
  • Early Pleistocene fauna
  • The Trinil race
  • Eoliths, or primitive flints
  • The second glaciation
  • The second interglacial stage
  • The Heidelberg race
  • Migrations of the reindeer
  • The third glaciation
  • Date of the Pre-Chellean industry
  • Geography and climate
  • The river-drift stations
  • Pre-Chellean industry
  • The Piltdown race
  • Mammalian life
  • Chellean industry
  • Chellean geography
  • Palaeolithic stations of Germany
  • Acheulean industry
  • The use of fire
  • Acheulean industry
  • The second period of arid climate
  • Late Acheulean implements
  • The Neanderthal race of Krapina
  • Close of the third interglacial
  • The fourth glacial stage
  • Arctic tundra life
  • Environment of the Neanderthal race
  • Mammals hunted by the Neanderthals
  • Cave life
  • The Neanderthal race
  • Mousterian industry
  • Disappearance of the Neanderthals
  • Opening of the Upper Palaeolithic
  • The Grimaldi race
  • Arrival of the Cro-Magnons
  • Upper Palaeolithic cultures
  • Upper Palaeolithic races
  • Geography and climate
  • Mammalian life
  • The Cro-Magnon race
  • Burial customs
  • Aurignacian industry
  • The birth of art
  • Origin of the Solutrean culture
  • Human fossils
  • The Brunn race
  • Solutrean industry
  • Solutrean art
  • Origin of the Magdalenian culture
  • Magdalenian culture
  • Magdalenian climate
  • Mammalian life
  • Human fossils
  • Magdalenian industry
  • Upper Palaeolithic art
  • Magdalenian engravings
  • Magdalenian painting
  • Art in the caverns
  • Polychrome painting
  • Magdalenian sculpture
  • Extent of the Magdalenian culture
  • Decline of the Magdalenian culture
  • Cro-Magnon descendants
  • Curse of the Old Stone Age
  • Invasion of the new races
  • Mas d'Azil
  • Fere-en-Tardenois
  • Azilian-Tardenoisian culture
  • Mammalian life
  • Azilian-Tardenoisian industry
  • The burials oat Opnet
  • The new races
  • Ancestry of European races
  • Transition to the Neolithic
  • Neolithic culture
  • Neolithic fauna
  • Prehistoric and historic races of Europe
  • Appendix. Lucretius and Bossuet on the early evolution of man ; Horace on the early evolution of man ; Aeschylus on the early evolution of man ; 'Urochs' or "Auerochs' ad 'Wisent' ; The Cro-Magnons of the Canary Islands ; The length of postglacial time and the antiquity of the Aurignacian culture ; The most recent discoveries of anthropoid apes and supposed ancestors of man in India ; Anthropoid apes discovered by Carthaginian navigators ; The lower jaw of the Piltdown man referred to an adult chimpanzee.