Palæolithic Man in Europe, with Supplementary Chapter on the Transition Period
CHAPTER I
Man's Place in the Organic World
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
Great Ice Age—Stone Implements—Fauna—Inhabited Caves—Classification of Materials—Chelléen, Acheuléen, Moustérien, Aurignacien, Solutréen, and Magdalénien Epochs
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
Introductory—Station of Veyrier—Cave of Béthenas—Cavern of Freudenthal—Kesslerloch Cave—Schussenried Open-air Station—Schweizersbild—Land Oscillations—Hoxne—Brick-earth—General remarks
