ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS, AND TABLES
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The Treks of Early Man 4
Out of Noah’s Ark and Over Bering Strait 13
The Land-Bridge to the New World 18
A Great-Circle Route to North America 19
Migration Routes 22
Glaciers and Ice Fields as Barriers to Early Man 26 and 27
The Life Story of the Earth 44
The Ice Fields of the Last Glaciation 48
The Age of River Terraces 51
The Four Great Glaciations 55
Glaciation Through Warmth 58
The First Hand Ax Found and Recognized 62
Time Scale of Early Man 65
The “Dawn Stones” of Early Man 66
Paleolithic Types and Industries 70
Man’s First Perfected Tool 71
Ancient Implements of Bone and Wood 74
Java Man—Pithecanthropus erectus 82
Gigantopithecus—Giant Ancestor of Man? 83
Three Types of Old World Man 89
Man’s First Spear Points 90
Percussion Flaking 91
The Second Step in Flint Knapping 92
The Third Step—Pressure Flaking 93
Sculpture of the Old Stone Age 98
How Blades Were Split off a Core 100
Upper Paleolithic Tools 101
Three Aurignacian Types 102
The Meaning of Scrapers 103
The Tanged Point 105
A Laurel-Leaf Solutrean Point 106
A Tool to Make a Tool 107
Magdalenian Harpoon Head 108
The First Illustration of a Blade 108
Our First Machine, the Spear-Thrower 109
The First Paintings 110
Bowmen from Africa 112
Archers from Spain 113
Magdalenian Engravings 114
A Chart of Old Stone Age Cultures 116 and 117
A Spear Point Found Near Trenton, N.J. 144
The Lake Lahontan Point 145
The Making of a Folsom Point 147
The Minute, Ribbonlike Flaking of a Folsom 148
A Map of the Chief Sites in the Southwest 150
Burials in the Old World and the New 152
The Finest Flint Work of Early Man 155
Two Points of Plainview Type 157
Flint Knapping of the Old and New Stone Ages 158
A Gypsum Cave Point 159
Three Early Points from the Borders of Extinct Lakes 161
An Abilene Point 162
A Sandia Point Compared with Two Solutreans 165
Cochise Milling Stones 168
An Animal Head Carved from a Fossil Bone 171
Earliest Drawings by New World Man? 172
A Hand Ax of the Black’s Fork Culture 174
A Hand Ax and a Chopping Tool from Texas 176
A Broken Pestle from Gold-Bearing Gravels in California 179
The More Important Sites of Early Man in the New World 185
Mammals of the Ice Age in North and South America 190
Eight Thousand Years of the Great Extinction 196
Prehistoric and Modern Bison 199
The Mongoloid Fold 208
The Cephalic Index 211
The Dispersal of Head Types 212
Three Types of Skulls 214
Early Man vs. the Mongoloid 216
From the Old World and the New 228
From Burma to Melanesia to America? 235
Fishhooks from Tahiti and California 236
Diffusion or Independent Invention? 237
Circumpacific Navigation? 241
Bearded White Gods? 250
The Equatorial Counter Current 252
New World Plants and Products 263
The First Illustration of the Corn Plant 268
“Turkie Corne” 270
A Seventeenth Century Picture of Corn 271
Corn of 4,500 Years Ago 273
Eden Chipping in Siberia 282
Hand Axe and Chopping Tool Cultures of the Old World 286
A Chopping Tool of Northwestern India 287
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