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Focus on Civilizations and Cultures
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Focus on civilizations and cultures.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface* -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- The Influence of the Discovery of America- The Old World and the New-American Phases of Life-The Term Prehistoric-Influence of Migrations-What Is Civilisation?-Domestication-Indian Philosophy- Aborigines-The Tartar-The Arab- Languages of America-Wand... -- Chapter 2 -- The Primeval Transition |
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The Latest Migrations-Founding a Capital-Beginnings of History-Prehistoric Phases- Non-Metallurgic Eras-Oscillations of the Land-The Glacial Period-Fossil Mammalia-The Flint-Folk of the Drift-Advent of European Man-The Drift Implements-Chronology of t... -- Chapter 3 -- The Quarry -- The Quarry-Brixham Cave- Brixham Flint Implement-Flint Ridge, Ohio-Flint Pits-Drift Quarry Deposits-Traces of Palæolithic Art-Lanceolate Flints-Almond-Shaped Flints-The Shawnees- The Colorado Indians-Caches of Worked Flints-Sepulchral Deposits-Cave-D... -- Chapter 4 -- Bone and Ivory Workers |
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Bone and Ivory Workers-Substitutes for Flint-Proofs of Relative Age-Domestic Bone Implements-Rude Palæolithic Art-Whalebone Workers-Primitive Working Tools-Fish-Spears and Harpoons-Artistic Ingenuity-Drawing of The Mammoth-The Madelaine Etchings-Right... -- Chapter 5 -- Fire -- The Fire-Using Animal-Esquimaux Use of Fire-Fuegian Fire-Making-Modes of Producing Fire-Australian Fire-Myth-Men of the Mammoth Age-Hearths of the Cave-Men-Pacific Root-Word for Fire-Great Cycle of the Aztecs-Rekindling the Sacred Fire-Peruvian Sun-Wo... -- Chapter 6 -- The Canoe |
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The Use of Tools-Tool-Using Instinct-Rudimentary Stage of Art-Primitive River-Craft-The Guanahanè Canoe- Ocean Navigation-African Canoe-Making-Oregon Cedar Canoes-Native Whalers of the Pacific-Prehistoric Boat Builders- Mawai's Canoes-The Polynesian A... -- Chapter 7 -- Tools -- Man the Artificer-The Law of Reason-Indigenous Races-Man's Capacity for Deterioration-What Is a Stone-Period?-Materials of Primitive Art- Succession of Races-Indications of Ancient Trade-The Shoshone Indian- Texas Implements-Modes of Hafting- Deer's-H... -- Chapter 8 -- The Metals |
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Dawn of a Metallurgic Era-Primitive Copper-Working-Copper Region of Lake Superior- The Pictured Rocks-Jackson Iron Mountain-The Cliff Mine-Copper Tools-Ancient Mining Trenches-Great Extent of Works-Mines of Isle Royale-Their Estimated Age-Ancient Mini... -- Chapter 9 -- Alloys -- The Age of Bronze-An Intermediate Copper Age-European Copper Implements- Native Silver and Copper-Tin and Copper Ores-The Cassiterides-Ancient Sources of Tin- Arts of Yucatan-Alloyed Copper Axe-Blades-Bronze Silver-Mining Tool-Peruvian Bronzes-Primiti... -- Chapter 10 -- The Mound-Builders |
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Prehistoric peoples.
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Prehistoric peoples. |
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Civilization -- History.
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Civilization. |
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History. |
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Ethnology -- America.
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Ethnology. |
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America. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Wilson, Daniel Prehistoric Man: Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World New York : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated,c2020 9781536181630 |
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1536181722 |
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9781536181722 (electronic book) |
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