Chapter II: Preface

The object of this little book is to give a clear and accurate statement of facts bearing on the character of the debatable ground intervening between the later part of the geological record and the beginnings of sacred and secular history.

The subject is one as yet full of difficulty; but the materials for its treatment have been rapidly accumulating, and it is hoped that it may prove possible to render it more interesting and intelligible than heretofore.

J. W. D.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. General Nature of the Subject 11

II. The World Before Man 18

III. The Earliest Traces of Man 27

IV. The Palanthropic Age 40

V. Subdivisions and Conditions of the Palanthropic Age 69

VI. End of the Palanthropic Age 85

VII. The Early Neanthropic Age 94

VIII. The Palanthropic Age in the Light of History 106

IX. The Deluge of Noah 121

X. Special Questions Respecting the Deluge 151

XI. The Prehistoric and Historic in the East 164

XII. The Neanthropic Dispersion 183

XIII. Summary of Results 210

Index 219

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Section at Trenton, on the Delaware, showing The Relation of
the Stone Implements to the Glacial (?) Gravels (after Holmes) 32

Chipped Quartzites, Modern American (after Holmes) 33

Flint Hache of the Ancient or Chellean Type, Aurillac (after
Carthaillac) 41

Cave of Goyet, Belgium (Section after Dupont) 47

Lance Head formed of a Flint Flake (Cave of Moustier). The Flat
Face shows a Bulb of Percussion (after Falsan) 49

Outline of the Skull of the 'Old Man of Cro-magnon' (after
Christy and Lartet) 54

The First Skeleton found in the Mentone Caves (after Rivière) 57

Handle of a Piercer, or Bodkin, in Bone, from Laugerie Basse,
in Form of a Deer 59

Flint Flake Knife, found in the Hand of the 'Giant' Skeleton of
Mentone (after Evans) 59

Neanderthal Skull--two Outlines: the Outer giving the more
Correct Form (from _Science_) 60

Skull of Canstadt Type found at Spy, Belgium, by Fraipont and
Lohest 61

Outline of Mammoth, Carved on a Plate of Ivory, from the Cave
of La Madeleine 68

Tooth of Cave Bear, with Engraving of a Seal, from a Collar
found at Sordes, Pyrenees (after Carthaillac) 71

The Skeleton of Laugerie Basse, Dordogne, showing the Position
of the Perforated Shells on the Limbs and Forehead (after
Carthaillac) 79

Skull from Truchère, showing a peculiar Palanthropic Type allied
to Neanthropic Races (after Quatrefages) 82

Flint Flakes of two Types, from Palanthropic and Neanthropic
Caves in the Lebanon 97

Restoration of the Sepulchral Cave of Frontal, Belgium (after
Dupont) 99

Cromlech at Fontanaccia, Corsica (after De Mortillet) 105

Map showing the Geographical and Geological Relations of the
Site of Eden, as described in Genesis 117

Map showing Lines of Postdiluvian Migrations from Shinar, as in
Genesis x. 185

Head illustrating the most Ancient Type of Cushite Turanian,
from Tel-loh (after de Sarzec). The cap is perhaps an imitation
of the antediluvian shell-caps, like that of the 'Man of
Mentone' 191

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