CHAPTER II

THE PALAEOLITHIC AGE

Reasons for devoting a chapter to the Palaeolithic Age 13

Tertiary Man 13

The Ice Age 14

Continental Britain 19

The relation of palaeolithic man to the Ice Age 22

‘Eolithic’ man? 25

The environment of palaeolithic man in Britain 30

Whence did he come? 30

Chronological puzzles 31

Palaeolithic skeletons 33

Palaeolithic artists 35

Range of the palaeolithic hunters in Britain 35

Where their tools have been found 36

Inhabited caves 37

Cave implements and river-drift implements 38

Divers forms of tools 41

Palaeolithic workshops 42

Handles 44

Uses of tools 45

Culture of the palaeolithic inhabitants of Britain 45

Religion 49

Totemism 51

Was the domestication of animals a result of totemism? 55

Magic 57

Was there a ‘hiatus’ between the Palaeolithic and the Neolithic Age? 59