The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and MankindWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
History
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
World history
§ 4. The world grows hard again 57
§ 5. Chronology of the Ice Age 59
BOOK II
THE MAKING OF MEN
CHAPTER VIII. THE ANCESTRY OF MAN
§ 1. Man descended from a walking ape 62
§ 2. First traces of man-like creatures 68
§ 3. The Heidelberg sub-man 69
§ 4. The Piltdown sub-man 70
§ 5. The riddle of the Piltdown remains 72
CHAPTER IX. THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE. (THE
EARLY PALÆOLITHIC AGE)
§ 1. The world 50,000 years ago 75
§ 2. The daily life of the first men 79
§ 3. The last Palæolithic men 84
CHAPTER X. THE LATER POSTGLACIAL PALÆOLITHIC MEN, THE FIRST
TRUE MEN. (LATER PALÆOLITHIC AGE)
§ 1. The coming of men like ourselves 86
§ 2. Subdivision of the Later Palæolithic 95
§ 3. The earliest true men were clever savages 98
§ 4. Hunters give place to herdsmen 101
§ 5. No sub-men in America 102
CHAPTER XI. NEOLITHIC MAN IN EUROPE
§ 1. The age of cultivation begins 104
§ 2. Where did the Neolithic culture arise? 108
§ 3. Everyday Neolithic life 109
§ 4. How did sowing begin? 116
§ 5. Primitive trade 118
§ 6. The flooding of the Mediterranean Valley 118
CHAPTER XII. EARLY THOUGHT
§ 1. Primitive philosophy 122
§ 2. The Old Man in religion 125
§ 3. Fear and hope in religion 126
§ 4. Stars and seasons 127
§ 5. Story-telling and myth-making 129
§ 6. Complex origins of religion 130
CHAPTER XIII. THE RACES OF MANKIND
§ 1. Is mankind still differentiating? 136
§ 2. The main races of mankind 140
§ 3. Was there an Alpine race? 142
§ 4. The Heliolithic culture of the Brunet peoples 146
§ 5. How existing races may be related to each other 148
CHAPTER XIV. THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND
§ 1. No one primitive language 150
§ 2. The Aryan languages 151
§ 3. The Semitic languages 153
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