INDEX 
Minotaur, origin of legend of, 311 
Miocene Period, 18 
Mithan see Gayal 
Modesty, origin of, 192 
Mollusks, antiquity of, 13 
Money, early Roman, 279 
in China, 322 
invention of, 278 
Monkeys, ancient, 18 
Montezuma, 338 
Moseley, Henry Gwyn-Jeffreys, 
55 
Mother Goddess see Great Mother 
Goddess 
Mountains, evolution of, to 
Mousterian epoch, 43, 54, 67, 71, 
190-199 
Mummification in Egypt, 300 
N 
Naga tribes, 253 
Naval power, Crete first, 309, 311 
Neanderthal Gorge, 83 
mans.46; 67, 715 725,03-138) 197. 
198, 352 
Nebulae, spiral, 6 
Needles, 202, 217 
Negritos in southern China, 318 
Negroid races of southwestern 
Asia, 301 
Neolithic Period see New Stone 
Age 
New Stone Age, 42, 68, 244, 
246-265, 309, 318, 319 
Nile Valley civilization, 298-301 
Nordics, origin of, 212 
North America joined to Asia, 326 
O 
Oar, evolution of the, 277 
Obercassel, human remains at, 74 
Obermaier on Mousterian fauna, 
191 
on Spanish prehistory, 227 
Oceans, changes in, 10 | 
Old Stone Age, 43, 54, 65, 67, 72, } 
75, 182-233 { 
Oligocene period, 20 : 
Ordovician period, 13 
Ostracoderms, ancient, 14 
Ox, ancient, 18 
as standard of value, 278 
Ozone, 5 
P 
Painted Pottery People, 302 
Painting of body, 206 
Paleolithic Period see Old Stone 
Age 
Paleozoic Era, 13 
Pelesati see Philistines, 312 
Penck and Brickner on Ice Age, 
65 
Penck on Ice Age, 68 
Permian period, 15, 16 
Persian Empire, 308, 315, 316 
Persians, rise of the, 307, 308 
Peruvians see Incas 
Petershéle, prehistoric site, 196 
Philistines, 312 
Philosophy in China, 324 
Pictographs, 2g0 
Pigment, use of, 196, 206 
Pigs, ancient, 18 
Piltdown, human remains at, 
134-141 
Pithecanthropus erectus, 18, 145- 
153 
Planets, 1, 2 
Plants cultivated by American 
Indians, 328, 341 
Pleistocene period, 19, 65, 134, 135 
Plesiosaurs, 16, 17 
Pliocene period, 18, 134 
Plow, origin of, 258, 259 
Porcelain, 274 
Postglacial Period, 68, 73 
Posture, human, 46, 48 
Potato domesticated in Peru, 341 
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