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Prehistoric man : $b researches into the origin of civilisation in the Old and the New worldWilson, Daniel, Sir

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Prehistoric man : $b researches into the origin of civilisation in the Old and the New world

Name: Prehistoric man : $b researches into the origin of civilisation in the Old and the New world
Author: Wilson, Daniel, Sir

Wilson, Daniel, Sir

Civilization -- History; Ethnology -- America; Prehistoric peoples

CHAPTER V.
                                  FIRE.
  The Fire-using Animal—Esquimaux use of Fire—Fuegian
    Fire-making—Modes of producing Fire—Australian Fire-myth—Men of
    the Mammoth Age—Hearths of the Cave-Men—Pacific Root-Word for
    Fire—Great Cycle of the Aztecs—Rekindling the Sacred
    Fire—Peruvian Sun-Worshippers—Sacrifice of the White Dog—Sacred
    Fires of the Mound-Builders—Indian Fire-making—Sanctity of
    Fire—Tierra del Fuego,                                          135

                               CHAPTER VI.
                               THE CANOE.
  The use of Tools—Tool-using Instinct—Rudimentary stage of
    Art—Primitive River-Craft—The Guanahanè Canoe—Ocean
    Navigation—African Canoe-making—Oregon Cedar Canoes—Native
    Whalers of the Pacific—Prehistoric Boat-Builders—Mawai’s
    Canoes—The Polynesian Archipelago—The Terra Australis
    Incognita—Canoe-Fleets of the Pacific—Primitive
    Navigation—Portable Boats—The Coracle and Kaiak—The Peruvian
    Balsa—Ocean Navigators,                                         151

                              CHAPTER VII.
                                 TOOLS.
  Man the Artificer—The Law of Reason—Indigenous Races—Man’s
    Capacity for Deterioration—What is a Stone Period?—Materials of
    Primitive Art—Succession of Races—Indications of Ancient
    Trade—The Shoshone Indian—Texas Implements—Modes of
    Hafting—Deer’s-horn Sockets—Stone Knives—Thlinkets of
    Alaska—Metals of a Stone Period—Arts of the South
    Pacific—Malayan Influence—Fijian Constructive Skill—Fijian
    Pottery—Slow Maturity of Races—The Flint-edged Sword—The League
    of the Five Nations—Iroquois Predominance—Work in Obsidian and
    Flint—Honduras Flint Implements—Sources of the
    Material—Collision of Races—Fate of Inferior Races,             170

                              CHAPTER VIII.
                               THE METALS.
  Dawn of a Metallurgic Era—Primitive Copper-Working—Copper Region
    of Lake Superior—The Pictured Rocks—Jackson Iron Mountain—The
    Cliff Mine—Copper Tools—Ancient Mining Trenches—Great extent of
    Works—Mines of Isle Royale—Their estimated Age—Ancient Mining
    Implements—Stone Mauls and Axes—Ontonagon Mining Relics—Sites
    of Copper Manufactories—Native Copper and Silver—Brockville
    Copper Implements—Lost Metallurgic Arts—Chemical
    Analyses—Native Terra-Cottas—Ancient British Mining Tools—The
    Race of the Copper Mines—Chippewa Superstitions—Earliest
    notices of the Copper Region—Ontonagon Mass of Copper—Ancient
    Native Traffic—Native use of Metals—Condition of the
    Mound-Builders—Mineral Resources—Antiquity of Copper
    Workings—Desertion of the Mines,                                198

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