Written as a popular alternative to the costly works of Lyell and Lubbock, this manual summarises the geological and archaeological evidence for humanity’s great age. It surveys the glacial epoch and the periods before and between the ice, cave dwellers gathering jet, flint and fossil shells, and the condition of the earliest people, closing with chapters on the unity of language and of the race.
A window on how the deep antiquity of humankind was explained to the public in the 1870s. Download the free EPUB.