John Hunter-Duvar
The Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. (1892, London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.)Chapter I. Early Archaeology. Geological Periods. - Mammoth Animals appear in the Tertiary. - Man in the Post-tertiary
Chapter II. Primeval Man. Civilization not necessary to Man. - His real Wants only Food and Shelter. - How he supplied them. - Not a Giant Race.
Chapter III. Man and the Mastodon. Survival of Animal Life of the Tertiary Period. - Giant Graminivora, Carnivora, and Reptiles contemporary with Man; who had to take his Prey by Cunning; sometimes himself a Prey; became nomadic
Chapter IV. Domestic Life of Nomadic Man. Tendency to migration inherent. - Adoption of Clothing. - Discovery of Fire. - Methods of producing it. - How migration was conducted. - Dwellings of the Nomads. - Food. - Cookery and Pottery. - Domestic Implements. - War-paint. - Occupations of Leisure. - Amusements. - Early Man as Boat-fisherman. As Agriculturist. - Belief in a Future State. - These Remarks apply only to the Newer Stone Epoch
Chapter V. The Older Stone Age (Palaeolithic). Weapons ponderous in this Age. - The River Drift. - Theory of Currents. - How Man's Handiwork is found in Drift. - Human Remains necessarily rare. - Vast Antiquity assigned to Drift Relics. - Where earliest Man lived. - London once a Swamp. - Flint Clubs. - Spears. - Palaeolithic Discoveries in France. - In England. - The Age of ponderous Flint Clubs dies out
Chapter VI. Cave-Dwellers. Britain. Cave Population not large. - Probably fluctuating. - Classification of relic-bearing Caves. - Reading of the Caves. - Mammoth Remains therein. - Dog and domesticated Animals, Date of. - Kent's, Brixham, Bacon's Hole, and other British Caves. - The Relics found therein analogous to those of the River Drift
Chapter VII. Cave-Dwellers (continued). Countries Other than Britain. Cave Explorations in North and South of France. - Valley of the Somme. - On the Dordogne Caves. - The Reading of these Caves. - Germany, Switzerland, Poland. - In Belgium. - Other Countries. - In all these Man, Mammoths, and Reindeer. - Types of Weapons. - These Weapons were Palaeolithic. - Explorations in North America. - In the Tropics. - Summary
Chapter VIII. Newer Stone Age (Neolithic). Celts or Axes, Hatchet-Hammers. Newer Stone Age, its Weapons. - Celts. - Classification of Celts. - Various Materials of which made. - How fitted. - Uses. - Mussel-shell the Theoretical Design. - Subtriangular Form. - Ordinary Form of Chipped Flint Celts. - Celts with Ground Edge. - Forms of Edges. - Polished and Ground. - Amazon Axes. - Two-edged. - Wedges and Mining Estampes. - Perforation of Stone, and how accomplished. - Socketed Celts. - Forms of Single and Double-edged. - Hatchet-hammers. - Migrations traced by Type of Ornementation.
Chapter IX. Newer Stone Age (Continued). Lances, Darts, Daggers, and Arrows.
Chapter X. Newer Stone Age (Continued). Implements of Domestic Use.
Chapter XI. Kitchen Middens.
Chapter XII.Mound-Builders.
Chapter XIII. The Age of Bronze.
Chapter XIV. Lake-Dwellers.
Chapter XV. Pottery.
Chapter XVI. The Iron Age.
Chapter XVII. Sepulture.
Chapter XVIII. Fossil Man.
Chapter XIX. Myth.
Chapter XX. Art.