Early Man in Britain and His Place in the Tertiary Period

xxiii, 537 pp. Illustrated by woodcuts. CONTENTS: The Relation of Geology to Archaeology and History; Biological and Physical Changes in Britain Before the Arrival of Man--The Eocene Period; Biological and Physical Changes in Britain Before the Arrival of Man--The Meiocene Period; Biological and Physical Changes in North-Western Europe Before the Arrival of Man--The Pleiocene Period; Biological and Physical Changes in Britain at the Time of the Arrival of Man; The River-Drift Hunter of the Pleistocene Age and His Surroundings; The Cave-Man and the Advance in Culture; The Arrival of the Prehistoric Farmer, and the Herdsman--The Neolithic Civilisation; The Neolithic Inhabitants of Britain of Iberian Race; The Further Development of Culture--The Bronze Age; The Introduction of Bronze, and of the Bronze Civilisation, Into Europe; The Prehistoric Iron Age North of the Alps; The Overlap of History; Britain in the Historic Period--Conclusion; Appendices: The Eocene Mammalia of Britain and France - The Meiocene Mammalia - The Pleiocene Mammalia.