172; the River-drift, 124-173; present with hippopotamus in cave of Pont Newydd, 192; in Pleistocene age, general conclusions as to, 244; Neolithic, 265. See also Neolithic inhabitants, River-drift man. Cave-man.
Manne-er-h'Roek, drawings of axes at, 306.
Maps; see Figures.
Marmots (arctomys), first appearance, 87; pouched (Spermophilus citillus), 96, 98; (alpine), Arctomys marmotta, 101; pouched (Spermophilus erythrogenoides), 104.
Marsh, on birds with teeth (note), 7; on the ancestors of the horse, 31; on the Eocene Lemuroids of North America, 34; on Coryphodon (note), 27.
Marten (Mustela martes), 98, 257, 262.
Martin, Emile, discoverer of human remains at Grenelle, 168.
Massenat, absence of pottery in French caves, 209; on remains found in Duruthy caves, 212; human skeletons discovered by, 225.
Mastodon, 56, 59, 80, 143; arvernensis, 80, 83, 85; brevirostris, 80.
Matlock, cave, 188.
Maunsel, Archdeacon, on discovery of elks' heads, 258.
Merchandise, hoards of bronze, 383.
Medlicott on River-drift man in India, 166; on fauna of the Narbadá, 167.
Megalithic tombs, Boyne, near Drogheda, 433.
Meiocene stage of the Tertiary period, characteristics of, 8; group of the Tertiary strata, 10; period, 37; classification of strata in Britain, 39; in Switzerland according to Heer, 39; in France and Germany according to Gaudry, 39; in Italy according to Forsyth Major, 39; period, biological and physical changes in Britain before the arrival of man, 37-69 ; age, sea of the, 40; geography of north-western Europe in the (map), 41; age, denudation since, 46; age, mountains and volcanoes of the, 44-46; forests of Britain, 47; rivers, 47; forests, 47; flora of Hebrides and Ireland, 49; on the Continent, 49; climate, 62; geography on the Continent, 61; age, no evidence of a Glacial period in, 65; age, no proof of man in, 66; (lower) mammals, 53; birds, 54; (lower) vegetation, 62; (mid) mammalia, 55; birds, 58; (mid) forests, apes in the, 57; (upper) land mammalia and birds of, 59; (upper) vegetation, 63.
Meles taxus (badger), 98.
Mello, Rev. J. M. , discoverer of Cresswell caves, 175.
Mendip Hills, remains in caves of, 193, 194.
Merk, excavations at Kesslerloch, 221.
Mesopithecus (ape), 60.
Messikomer, on pile-dwellings, 293.
Metallurgy of bronze, 407.
Meyer, on the reptilia of the Meiocene age (note), 43.
Mid Eocene; see Eocene.
Mid Meiocene; see Meiocene (mid).
Mid Pleistocene; see Pleistocene (mid).
Migration of bisons and reindeer, 189.
Migration of animals in Pleistocene period, 114.
Millet of Neolithic age, 301.
Milne-Edwards, A., on lower Meiocene birds, 54; on mid Meiocene birds, 57; on remains of birds from central and southern France, 218.
Miner's pick. Grimes Graves (fig. ), 277.
Mine shafts, Cissbury (fig.), 279.
Mines, of Tuscany worked by Etruskans, 405; tin, 403; method of working in Neolithic age, 276.
Models of implements, etc., custom of burying with the dead, by the Eskimos, 288.
Mohrya, lake, pile-dwellings, 292.
Mole (Talpa), 40, 54, 98.
Monkeys in Pleiocene forests of Val d'Arno, 84.
Montelius, Scandinavian bronze swords (note), 415; on division of Bronze age in Scandinavia, 389; on sculptures on rocks of Sweden, 392.
Moose of Prehistoric Britain in bogs of Northumberland and Yorkshire, Hawick, Berwickshire, and Walthamstow, 260.
"Moraine profonde," 117.
Moret, forest of, 132.
Moss, Arctic (Hypnum turgescens), in Britain, 130.
Moss, E. J., on Irish elks' bones, 258.
Mother Grundy's Parlour, cave, 186.
Moulds used for casting in the Bronze age, 362.
Mortillet, de, on existence of man in France in middle of Meiocene age, 67; on flint implements found at Grenelle, 168; subdivisions of the
