A Manual of the Antiquity of Man

No book has caused so much controversy as the Bible. It has been made to answer for the folly of both its friends and foes. The fierce assaults made by the sceptic have been the...

Happily for the Archaeo-geologist, there is given him a point from which to start in his researches into the antiquity of his race. Without it his calculations would be very ind...

No subject, of late years, has so much engrossed the attention of geologists as the antiquity of the human race. The interest was greatly increased by the publication of Sir Cha...

_Belgian Caverns._--The relics discovered by Dr. Schmerling, in the caves of Belgium, must be referred to the time of the retreat of the glaciers. The glaciers were still in exi...

America furnishes a better field for the antiquary than the old world. Her ancient remains are not so much injured by the decay of empires and the rude hand of war. Succeeding a...

It is not generally known that written history extends so far back as to make worthless the present system of chronology. The mighty empires of antiquity must have been a myster...

The Neolithic, or Epoch of Tamed Animals, is characterized by stone implements, polished or made smooth by a process of grinding and cutting, the greater development attained in...

The glaciers, to a limited extent, have again advanced. The gigantic animals of the past age have either disappeared or are fast becoming extinct. The great cave-bear, cave-lion...

The theory of the unity of the human race has caused a clash of opinions among men of science. It has been the great battle field among anthropologists, ethnologists, geologists...

The Reindeer Epoch, approaching nearer the present age than those already enumerated, presents man under a more favorable aspect, and affords a better view of his traits of char...

The glaciers have departed. Summer comes again. The forests bloom and the wild beast roams about. Many species withstood the long siege of cold; others perished; still others fo...

Of the first appearance of man on the globe there is no precise knowledge. His origin is a mystery. The place of his birth is generally supposed to be in Central Asia. There the...

From the human bones found in peat-bogs and tumuli, man is represented as having a narrow but round skull, with a projecting ridge above the eyebrows, showing he was round-heade...

The tertiary period began with the close of the cretaceous. A map of the early tertiary period would represent parts of Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, the whole of...

The origin and growth of language evidently afford a great field for study, in not only tracing the development of civilization, but also in confirming the testimony of the anci...

The Age of Bronze bears no direct relation to the antiquity of man, for it is largely embraced in written history. Although history does not record the events of the age of bron...

Man is an improvable being, and some advancement may be expected in his condition. His mode of life, and continued conflicts with the fierce wild beasts, would tax his every dev...

As the _Iron Epoch_ fairly establishes civilization, and belongs almost wholly to the historical epoch, it will be here briefly noticed, and then dismissed after giving a quotat...

INTRODUCTION. PAGE Interest in the subject--Influence of Lyell--Usher's Chronology--Aime Boue first to proclaim the high antiquity of man--Dr. Schmerling the founder--Boucher de...

Objections to the Unity of the Race--Anatomical-- Geographical--Disparity of--Non-existence of medium types-- Phenomena caused by two united types--Objections answered-- Both ma...

Controversy--Perversion of meaning--Men of science branded-- Design of the chapter--Creation--"Bara"--Day--Man's appearance--Two accounts--Case of Cain--Sons of God--Remarks of...

Advance of the Glaciers--Fauna---Reindeer epoch a distinct one--Evidences of the existence of Man--Caves of Central and Southern France--Implements from Les Eyzies--Relics from...

Starting point for the investigation--Advance of the ice-- Fauna of Europe--Geological Period--Probable Date--Probable Duration--Evidences of the Existence of Man--Implements fr...

North America during the Tertiary--Europe--Climate--Fauna of Eocene--Of Miocene--Of Pliocene--Traces of Man--Opinions of Lyell, Lubbock, and A. R. Wallace--Man in the Pliocene--...

Belgian Caverns--Caverns of Liege--Engis Skull--Remarks of Prof. Huxley--Views of Busk, Schmerling, Buchner, and Vogt-- Neanderthal Skull--Prof. Huxley, Dr. Buchner, and Dr. Fuh...

No knowledge of the first appearance of Man--Fauna of India during the Miocene--Intellect of Man--Contests with the Beasts--A weapon invented--Earliest type--Advancement slow--...

Great opportunities for the Archaeologist--Aim of the chapter-- Skull from Osage Mission--Comstock lode--Charcoal at Toronto-- Knife from Kansas--Pelvic bone from Natchez--Skele...

Mystery of Ancient Empires--Rollin's difficulties--Egypt-- Manetho's list--Statement of Herodotus--Mariette's explorations--Borings in the mud deposits of the Nile-- Dr. Schliem...