[Transcriber's Note: Bold text is surrounded by =equal signs= and italic text is surrounded by _underscores_.] [Illustration] THE EARLY CAVE-MEN [Illustration] =Industrial and Social History Series= _By KATHARINE ELIZABETH DOPP, Ph. D._ _The Extension Division of The University of Chicago. Author of “The Place of Industries in Elementary Education”_ =Book I. THE TREE-DWELLERS.= THE AGE OF FEAR. Illustrated with a map, 14 full-page and 46 text drawings in half-tone by Howard V. Brown. Cloth. Square 12mo. 158 pages; 45 cents. _For the primary grades._ =Book II. THE EARLY CAVE-MEN.= THE AGE OF COMBAT. Illustrated with a map, 17 full-page and 68 text drawings in half-tone by Howard V. Brown. Cloth. Square 12mo. 183 pages; 45 cents. _For the primary grades._ =Book III. THE LATER CAVE-MEN.= THE AGE OF THE CHASE. Illustrated with 27 full-page and 87 text drawings in half-tone by Howard V. Brown. Cloth. Square 12mo. 197 pages; 45 cents. _For the primary grades._ =Book IV. THE EARLY SEA PEOPLE.= FIRST STEPS IN THE CONQUEST OF THE WATERS. Illustrated with 21 full-page and 110 text drawings in half-tone by Howard V. Brown and Kyohei Inukai. Cloth. Square 12mo. 224 pages; 50 cents. _For the intermediate grades._ _Other volumes, dealing with the early development of pastoral and agricultural life, the age of metals, travel, trade, and transportation, will follow._ [Illustration: _A map of the Cave-men’s country, showing the relative position of the geographical features referred to in this book_] THE EARLY CAVE-MEN KATHARINE ELIZABETH DOPP _Lecturer in Education In the Extension Division of the University of Chicago_ [Illustration] RAND McNALLY & COMPANY CHICAGO NEW YORK LONDON _Copyright, 1904_ By Katharine Elizabeth Dopp _Entered at Stationers’ Hall_ =The Rand-McNally Press= _Chicago_ _TO_ =Dan, Dorothy, Harold, and Jamie= I DEDICATE THIS BOOK PREFACE