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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

  1. 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
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    Pages 3-25

CHAPTER II

Man and Glacial Phenomena

  1. Great Ice Age—Stone Implements—Fauna—Inhabited Caves—Classification of Materials—Chelléen, Acheuléen, Moustérien, Aurignacien, Solutréen, and Magdalénien Epochs
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    Pages 26-54

CHAPTER III

Cave Researches (Britain)

  1. 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
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    Pages 55-67

CHAPTER IV

Chronological Problems and Land Oscilations

  1. Introductory—Station of Veyrier—Cave of Béthenas—Cavern of Freudenthal—Kesslerloch Cave—Schussenried Open-air Station—Schweizersbild—Land Oscillations—Hoxne—Brick-earth—General remarks
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    Pages 68-87