Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 43750-h.htm or 43750-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43750/43750-h/43750-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43750/43750-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/ancientmaninbrit00mackuoft Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). In the text and the Index of this book there are letters with diacritical marks not available in the Latin-1 character set used for this e-book: [=a] represents an a with a macron above it, [)e] represents an e with a breve above it. [)i] represents an i with a breve above it, [)o] represents an o with a breve above it, [)u] represents an u with a breve above it. Please see the end of this book for further notes. ANCIENT MAN IN BRITAIN [Illustration: Copyright, 1915, by Charles Scribner's Sons HEAD OF A CRÔ-MAGNON MAN After the restoration modelled by J. H. McGregor. Reproduced by permission from _Men of the Old Stone Age_ by Henry Fairfield Osborn.] ANCIENT MAN IN BRITAIN by DONALD A. MACKENZIE Author of "Egyptian Myth and Legend" "Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe" "Colour Symbolism" &c. With Foreword by G. Elliot Smith, F.R.S. Blackie And Son Limited 50 Old Bailey, London; Glasgow, Bombay Printed in Great Britain 1922 FOREWORD