INDEX 
Aurignacian epoch, 43, 53, 54,725 
76-82, 198-206, 228 
Aurignacians see Cro-Magnon 
Ax, cult of the Double, 310 
invention of stone, 235 
symbol of authority, 236 
Azilian epoch, 43, 52 
Aztecs, 337-340 
B 
Babylonia, ancient, 302-306 
Bacteria, fossil, 15 
Balsa rafts of Incas, 344 
Bate, Miss, on fauna associated 
with Galilee skull, 129 
Baton de commandement, 201, 202, 
208, 209, 216 
Birds, age of, 17 
Boule, M., on Neanderthal man, 
131 
Bow and arrow, 217, 229, 236, 237 
composite, 323 
simple, 323 
Brain, evolution of, 45 
of apes, 45 
Pithecanthropus, 153 
Rhodesian man, 162 
table of capacities, 165 
Brick making, development of, 
282-284 
Bronze Age, 41, 266-293, 309-312, 
319, 329 
Bronze, effect on civilization, 274 
invention of, 268 
Brinn, human remains at, 75 
Brix, human remains at, 75 
Buckwheat, cultivation of, 341 
Buddhism fostered by Asoka, 317 
Bull, cult of the, in Crete, 310 
Burial, 189 
Bronze Age, 292 
Cro-Magnon, 206 
Magdalenian, 223 
Mousterian, 196 
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Burial, Neanderthal, 197 
Burin, 202 
Bushmen, 80 
Buxton on Neanderthal man, 96 
Cc 
Calendar, of Egyptians, 298 
of Incas, 346 
of Mayas, 334 
Cambrian period, 13 
Camels, ancient, 18 
Camel, use of, 275 
Cannibalism, of Neanderthalers, 
197 
sacrificial, 255 
Canoe, invention of, 241 
Capsian culture, 227-232 
Carboniferous period, 14 
Carving, art of, 205 
Carvings of Magdalenians, 218 
Caschrom, 259, 260 
Casting, development of, 269 
Cat, domestication of, 296 
Cats, ancient, 18 
Cave art, $1, 52, 203-205, 217-223 
dwellers, 192, 195, 196, 199, 214, 
217, 219 
Cells, living, 25-28 
Cenotes, 334 
Cephalopods, ancient, 13, 14, 16 
Cereals, importance of, 243 
Chalcolithic Period, 42, 267, 342 
Chamberlin and Moulton on 
origin of earth, 9 
Chancelade, man of, 74 
Chellean epoch, 43, 54, 65, 67, 72, 
185-187 
Chelles, prehistoric site, 43, 54 
“Children of the Sun’”’ see Incas 
China, ancient, 317-325 
Great Wall of, 283 
Chinampas, 338 
Chinese Empire, 325 
Ch’in Shih Huang-ti, 325 
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