_Chapter 2._ 11
THE ROAD OF EARLY MAN
_How New Was the New World? A Passage from Asia to North America. Men
Out of Asia—and All the Continents. Bering Strait—Freeway to the New
World. Three Roads to the South—with One Detour. Problematical Roads to
the New World. Ware Dogma!_
_Chapter 3._ 29
THE DEAD HAND OF THE AGES
_Conflicts and Confusions. The Problem of the Ages. The Bronze Age—a
Phantasm. Wood, Bone, and Shell Ages. Dividing the Stone Age—the Old and
the New. Activities of the New Stone Age. Agriculture—Test of the
Neolithic. First a Food Gatherer, Then a Hunter._
_Chapter 4._ 43
THE GREAT ICE AGE
_Our Part of the Geologic Time Scale. The Glacial Hypothesis Appears.
The End of the Great Ice Age. River Terraces and Beach Lines. The Cause
of Glaciation._
_Chapter 5._ 61
EARLY MAN IN THE OLD WORLD
_Archaeology, a New Science. Mortillet’s Cramping Classification. Enter
the Eolith. Flake vs. Core Industries. Dating Early Man in Europe. True
Tools—Deceptive Skulls. Ancestors from Heidelberg and Swanscombe?
Putting the Neanderthal in His Place. Ancient Man in Java and China.
“Giant Ape”—a Mythical Ancestor? “Java” Men in Africa and Europe?
Man-Apes or Ape-Men in Africa. The Progressive Neanderthal. Radiocarbon
Dates for the Mousterian. Homo sapiens—New or Old? Solutrean Flint
Workers Invade Europe. Weapons and Tools—from Hand Ax to Arrowhead. The
Danger in Universal Time Scales._
_Chapter 6._ 119
WHAT THE BONES HAVE TO SAY
_Early Man as Adam’s Progeny. Science and Religion Embattled. Reaction,
Led by Science. The Red Herring of the “Primitive Skull.” The Mystery of
the Missing Bones. South America Provides the First Skulls. North
American Skulls and Bones. Early Man Not Solely Mongoloid or Indian.
Evidence from Middle America. New Finds in the United States._
_Chapter 7._ 143
THE ARTIFACTS OF EARLY MAN IN THE NEW WORLD
_Artifacts from Heaven. The Folsom Point—Unique and Potent. Americans
Hunted Animals Now Extinct. Two Other Folsom Sites—Clovis and
Lindenmeier. Another Fine and Ancient Point. The Plainview Point. A New
Point—and Sloths—in Gypsum Cave. Old Lake and River Sites. Sandia—Older
Than Folsom. The Milling Stone Appears. A Paucity of Art Objects. Hand
Axes in the Americas. Early Man in Mexico. From the Glacial to the
Archaic. Back of 15,000 Years?_
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