Desor, on cup-stones, 339.
Diadem of bronze, Denmark (fig.), 389.
Didelphys (opossum), 26, 40.
Disc-shaped barrow of Bronze age (fig.), 367.
Distribution of animals as evidence of European geography, 109.
Dog family (Canis), first appearance, 87; no trace of dog, or other domestic animals, with Cave-men, 217; sometimes used for food in Neolithic age, 304.
Dogger Bank, collection of bones, antlers, etc., found at, 149.
Dol-ar-Marchnant, plumed hatchet on, 305.
Domestic animals of Prehistoric age, 262; animals of Neolithic age, 295; dog, hog, 295; oxen, sheep, goats, 297; animals not older than Prehistoric age (note), 300.
Dordogne, sketch of glutton found in caves of, 215.
Dormouse, 40, 54; gigantic (Myoxus melitensis), 104, 105.
Dowris Bog, bronze articles found in, 363.
Dress and ornaments of Cave-men, 211.
Drinking-cup, East Kennet (fig.), 361.
Dryandra, 52.
Dryandroides, 48.
Dryopithecus Fontani (ape), 58.
Duck, wild, engraved in la Madelaine, 219, 303.
Dupont, on the caves of Belgium (note), 203; on Cave-men in Belgium, 204; on the mode of obtaining fire by the Cave-men, 210; on the bones of Cave-men, 224.
Duration of Pleistocene and Prehistoric periods, 265.
Dürnten, lignites of, present no traces of man, 145.
Duruthy cave; see Caves.
Dwellings of the Cave-men, 205.
Dyer on the dispersion of the Tertiary floras, 20.
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Early Bronze age; see Bronze age.
Early Pleistocene age; see Pleistocene, early.
Edentata (fig.), 56.
Edwards, A. Milne-, on the specialisation of birds in Tertiary period, 12; on the lower Eocene birds, 28; birds of the upper Eocene lake of Paris, 33
Eguisheim, cranium found at, 167.
Egyptian tin, probable source of, 407.
Egyptians and their influence, 447.
Elba, tin-stone found at, 405.
Elephants (elephas), first appearance, 87; African (Elephas Africanus), 103; hunting in sixteenth century, 107; Falconer's and pigmy (Elephas Falconeri, melitensis, mnaidrensis), 104; straight-tusked (Elephas antiquus), 104, 126, 145, 187; primigenius (mammoth), 104; (Falconeri) melitensis, mnaidrensis (Falconer's and pigmy elephant), 104; armeniacus, 107; meridionalis, 81, 85, 86, 126; namadicus (Stegodon) insignis, 166.
Elk, Irish (Magaceros hibernicus), 104, 127; sole survivor from the Pleistocene into the Prehistoric age, 257; remains found in Ballybetagh bog, 258; proved to have been hunted, 258; discoveries of, by Ussher, in Ireland, 258; discovered in Berkshire and Ayrshire, 259; their existence in peat doubted by Leith Adams, but recorded by Kinahan (note), 258; Irish, 257; true, 257, 260, 262.
Elliot, Sir Walter, antlers of moose found by, 260.
Ellis on flint-flakes in submerged forest of Barnstaple, 251.
Emys (turtle), 19.
Enamelling, art of, first appearance, 435.
English conquest, 490.
Engraved slab tomb, Kivik, Scania (fig.), 395.
Engraving by Cave-men, 220, 221.
Eocene, the lowest Tertiary strata, 10; classification, 14; Britain part of a great continent, 23; (lower) plants and animals, 25; (lower) mammalia, 26; (lower), birds, 28; (mid) flora, 28; (mid) mammalia, 30; (mid) temperature according to Starkie Gardner, 35; (upper continental) mammalia, 32, 34; south-eastern coast-line of Britain during the, 17; north-west coast-line during the, 1; geography of north-western Europe in the, 18; sea, 17; rich in reptilian life, 19; mountains of the, 23; rivers of the, 25; plants and animals of the, 25; strata divided into three groups:—Pre-nummulitic, nummulitic, post-nummulitic, 15; classification of (table), 16; stage of the Tertiary period, characteristics of, 9.
