The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished RacesAllen, Emory Adams
History
The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
Allen, Emory Adams
Archaeology; Indians; Prehistoric peoples
For fuller information on this topic see James Geikie’s “The
Great Ice Age;” also, by the same author, “Prehistoric Europe.”
In Appendix “B” of this latter work the author gives a map of
Europe at the climax of the Glacial Age, showing the great
extension of the glaciers. This map embodies the results of the
labors of a great many eminent scholars. See also Croll’s
“Climate and Time;” also Wallace’s “Island Life,” pp. 102-202.
We are not aware that the statements as set forth above are
seriously questioned by any geologist of note. Some consider it
quite possible that the bowlder clays of Southern England and
Central Germany were deposited during a period of submergence
from melting icebergs. (Dawkins’s “Early Man in Britain,” p.
116.) But even this demands vast glaciers to the north of this
supposed submergence to produce the icebergs. The weight of
authority, however, is in favor of the glaciers. (Geikie’s
“Prehistoric Europe,” p. 175.)
Haywood’s Heer’s “Primeval World of Switzerland,” p. 200.
“Prehistoric Europe,” p. 261. It is no longer a question that
there was at least one mild period separating two periods of
cold in Europe. See Lubbock’s “Prehistoric Times,” p. 316;
Dawkins’s “Early Man in Britain,” pp. 115-120; Lyell’s
“Antiquity of Man,” pp. 282-285., Dana’s “Manual of Geology,”
first edition, p. 561; Haywood’s Heer’s “Primeval World of
Switzerland,” Vol. II, p. 203; Wallace’s “Island Life,” p. 114;
Croll’s “Climate and Time.” Mr. Geikie, in his works, “The
Great Ice Age” and “Prehistoric Europe,” maintains there were
several warm interglacial epochs.
Wright.
Morgan’s “Ancient Society,” p. 29.
Geikie’s “Prehistoric Europe,” p. 365. Morgan’s “Ancient
Society,” p. 39.
Rau’s “Early Man in Europe,” p. 14.
“Primitive Industry,” p. 485.
Lubbock’s “Prehistoric Times,” 384.
Geikie’s “Prehistoric Europe,” chap. ix. Most geologists
suppose there was a general depression of the region below the
sea level, or so as to form inland lakes, and that the loess
was thus deposited, as perhaps it is depositing at the present
time in the lakes of Switzerland. (Wright.)
Lubbock’s “Prehistoric Times,” p. 423.
Evans’s “Ancient Stone Implements,” p. 621.
_Pop. Science Monthly,_ Oct., 1883.
Dawkins’s “Ear. Man in Brit.,” p. 163.
Wright’s “Studies in Science and Religion,” p. 278. See also
British Association Report, 1882, p. 602.
Lubbock’s “Prehistoric Times,” p. 356.
Abbott’s “Primitive Industry.”
Dawkins’s “Early Man in Britain,” p. 172.
Wright.
Quatrefages’s “Human Species,” p. 307.
“Human Species,” p. 305.
Ibid., p. 307.
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