Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 52664-h.htm or 52664-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52664/52664-h/52664-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52664/52664-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Some characters might not display in this UTF-8 text version. If so, the reader should consult the HTML version referred to above. One example of this might occur in the second paragraph under "Choppers and Adze-like Tools", page 46, which contains the phrase “an adze cutting edge is ∠ shaped”. The symbol before “shaped” looks like a sharply-italicized sans-serif “L”. Devices that cannot display that symbol may substitute a question mark, a square, or other symbol. PREHISTORIC MEN by ROBERT J. BRAIDWOOD Research Associate, Old World Prehistory Professor Oriental Institute and Department of Anthropology University of Chicago Drawings by Susan T. Richert [Illustration] Chicago Natural History Museum Popular Series Anthropology, Number 37 Third Edition Issued in Co-operation with The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago Edited by Lillian A. Ross Printed in the United States of America by Chicago Natural History Museum Press Copyright 1948, 1951, and 1957 by Chicago Natural History Museum First edition 1948 Second edition 1951 Third edition 1957 Fourth edition 1959 Preface [Illustration] Like the writing of most professional archeologists, mine has been confined to so-called learned papers. Good, bad, or indifferent, these papers were in a jargon that only my colleagues and a few advanced students could understand. Hence, when I was asked to do this little book, I soon found it extremely difficult to say what I meant in simple fashion. The style is new to me, but I hope the reader will not find it forced or pedantic; at least I have done my very best to tell the story simply and clearly. Many friends have aided in the preparation of the book. The whimsical charm of Miss Susan Richert’s illustrations add enormously to the spirit I wanted. She gave freely of her own time on the drawings and in planning the book with me. My colleagues at the University of Chicago, especially Professor Wilton M. Krogman (now of the University of Pennsylvania), and also Mrs. Linda Braidwood, Associate of the Oriental Institute, and Professors Fay-Cooper Cole and Sol Tax, of the Department of Anthropology, gave me counsel in matters bearing on their special fields, and the Department of Anthropology bore some of the expense of the illustrations. From Mrs. Irma Hunter and Mr. Arnold Maremont, who are not archeologists at all and have only an intelligent layman’s notion of archeology, I had sound advice on how best to tell the story. I am deeply indebted to all these friends.