P R E H I S T O R I C M A N [Illustration] [Illustration: KASKATACHYUH. A CHIMPSEYAN CHIEF. Drawn by D. Wilson LL.D. from sketches by Paul Kane. Cooper & Hodson Lith. 188, Strand, London, W.C.] P R E H I S T O R I C M A N Researches into the Origin of Civilisation in the Old and the New World. BY DANIEL WILSON, LL.D., F.R.S.E. PROFESSOR OF HISTORY & ENGLISH LITERATURE IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, TORONTO; AUTHOR OF THE ‘PREHISTORIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND,’ ETC. THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. LONDON: M A C M I L L A N A N D C O . 1876. [_The right of translation is reserved._] Edinburgh University Press: THOMAS AND ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE, PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY. IN FOND MEMORIAL OF A BROTHER’S LIFE-LONG SYMPATHY IN MANY FAVOURITE RESEARCHES THESE VOLUMES DEPRIVED BY DEATH OF THEIR PURPOSED DEDICATION ARE INSCRIBED WITH THE LOVED NAME OF GEORGE WILSON, M.D. F.R.S.E. LATE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH AND DIRECTOR OF THE INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND. P R E F A C E . THE subject primarily treated of in the following pages is the man of that new hemisphere which was revealed to Europe in 1492. There through all historic centuries he had lived apart, absolutely uninfluenced by any reflex of the civilisation of the Ancient World; and yet, as it appears, pursuing a course in many respects strikingly analogous to that by means of which the civilisation of Europe originated. The recognition of this is not only of value as an aid to the realisation of the necessary conditions through which man passed in reaching the stage at which he is found at the dawn of history; but it seems to point to the significant conclusion that civilisation is the development of capacities inherent in man.