The New Stone Age in Northern Europe

Name: The New Stone Age in Northern Europe
Author: Tyler, John M. (John Mason)

Tyler, John M. (John Mason)

Stone age -- Europe

V. A GLANCE EASTWARD                                   91

   CRADLE OF NEOLITHIC CULTURE. BABYLONIA.
   ANAU, SUSA. THE BEGINNINGS OF AGRICULTURE.
   PLATEAUS AND PIEDMONT ZONES. HOE-TILLAGE.
   THE PLOUGH. SUMMARY.


   VI. MEGALITHS                                         114

   DOLMENS. "GALLERY CHAMBERS." MENHIRS.
   DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD. INCINERATION.


   VII. NEOLITHIC INDUSTRIES                             131

   DRESS. FLINT AND BONE IMPLEMENTS. AXES.
   MATTOCKS. FLINT MINES. SALT. GOLD. COPPER.
   TRADE. WARES. AMBER. TRADE-ROUTES. POTTERY,
   BANDED, CORDED AND CALCYCIFORM, INCRUSTED
   POTTERY.


   VIII. NEOLITHIC CHRONOLOGY                            160

   FINAL RETREAT OF GLACIERS. YOLDIA EPOCH.
   ANCYLUS EPOCH--LITTORINA DEPRESSION. DATE
   OF BEGINNING AND OF END OF NEOLITHIC PERIOD.
   FOREST SUCCESSIONS. MAGELMOSE AND SHELL-HEAPS.
   SUCCESSIVE TYPES OF AXE. CHARTS.


   IX. NEOLITHIC PEOPLES AND THEIR MIGRATIONS            179

   PALÆOLITHIC RACES AND MIGRATIONS. MEDITERRANEAN
   RACE. ROUTES OF MIGRATION. AFRICAN,
   MEDITERRANEAN, SOUTH RUSSIAN STEPPE ROUTE.
   NEOLITHIC PEOPLES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION.
   NORDIC PEOPLES. THE DANUBE VALLEY. THE
   "MELTING-POT" OF CENTRAL EUROPE. PIONEER
   LIFE.


   X. NEOLITHIC RELIGION                                 206

   PALEOLITHIC RELIGION, THE AGE OF WONDER:
   NEOLITHIC RELIGION AND EXPERIENCE. RITUAL.
   TABOO AND TRIBAL RESPONSIBILITY. GREEK MYSTERIES.
   THE COMING OF THE OLYMPIANS, AND
   THE RETURN OF THE ANCIENT CULTS, SOURCES
   OF THEIR VITALITY. CULT OF THE GODDESS AND
   MOTHER-RIGHT. RELATION TO AGRICULTURE.
   SOCIAL POSITION OF WOMEN.


   XI. PROGRESS                                          228

   THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE BALTIC. SOURCE
   OF PROGRESS NOT IN WAR. AGRICULTURE. HOME
   TRAINING. THE NEIGHBORHOOD. RELIGION. PHILOSOPHY.
   MINGLING OF CULTURES AND PEOPLES.


   XII. THE COMING OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS                 246

   ARYAN AND EUROPEAN LANGUAGES. ORIGINAL
   LANGUAGE; SPREAD AND MODIFICATIONS. EARLIEST
   MIGRATIONS. THE ACHÆANS. THE AGE OF
   HEROES. CITY-STATES IN GREECE. ABSORPTION
   OF INVADERS. HOMELAND. INDO-EUROPEAN RELIGION.
   PERSISTENCE OF NEOLITHIC SURVIVALS.
   FOLK-LORE AND FAIRY-TALE. COMMON PEOPLE.
   LEGISLATION. THE CHURCH. LIFE CURRENTS.


   BIBLIOGRAPHY                                          293

   INDEX                                                 309




ILLUSTRATIONS


   Reconstructed Lake-Dwellings               _Frontispiece_
                                                 FACING PAGE

   Human Figures, Spain--Early Neolithic                  32

   Drawings of Animals (Cro-Magnon) from Altamira         32

   Shell-Heap                                             40

   Shell-Heap Axe                                         40

   Shell-Heap Jar                                         40

   Weaving and Plaiting from Lake-Dwellings               84

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The New Stone Age in Northern Europe

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