INDEX 
Potter’s wheel, invention of, 273 
Pottery, archeological importance 
of, 273 
beginnings of, 238 
development of, 274 
of Aztecs, 339 
Bronze Age, 273 
Mayas, 334 
Mesolithic, 238 
Peruvians, 342 
painted, 319 
Pre-Chellean epoch, 43, 65, 67, 
725 182-185 
P¥edmost, human remains at, 81 
Pressure flaking, 207 
Priest-kings of Cretans, 311 
Primates, ancient, 18 
Proto-homo, 152 
Pterodactyls, 17 
Punjab _ region 
Persia, 316 
Pygmies of southwestern Asia, 301 
Pyramids, Egyptian, 299 
Mayan, 331, 332 
Toltec, 337 
Q 
Quinoa, see Buckwheat 
Quipus, 345 
conquered by 
Rabbits, ancient, 18 
Radium in relation 
age, 3 
Raised beaches, 63 
Raymonden, human remains at, 74 
Religion, of Aztecs, 339 
of Chinese, 319 
Cretans, 310 
Cro-Magnon race, 202 
Egyptians, 299 
Incas, 346 
Mayas, 334 
Neanderthalers, 196 
New Stone Age, 248, 249 
to earth’s 
Religion, of Solutreans, 211 
origin of, 225 
Reptiles, age of, 12, 16, 17 
Rhinoceros, ancient, 18 
Rhodesian man, 154-162 
Riss glacial stage, 66 
River terraces, 65 
Rock engravings, 52 
Rodents, ancient, 18 
S 
Sacrifice, human, 246-248, 291, 
292, 310, 319, 328, 3395. 349> 
346 
of animals, 248, 292 
Sail, invention of the, 277, 298 
used by Incas, 344, 345 
St. Acheul, France, 43 
Schwalbe on Ehringsdorf  re- 
mains, III 
Sculpture, early Egyptian, 299 
Magdalenian, 222 
Solutrean, 209 
Sea lions, ancient, 18 
Seals, ancient, 18 
Semites, rise of, 304 
Sex, determination of, 28 
Shang Dynasty, 321 
Sharks, ancient, 14 
“Shouldered-point” 
209 
Silhouettes of hands, 204 
Silk, early use of, 262 
Silurian period, 14 
Skeleton, human, 48 
Les Hoteaux, 224 
Neanderthal, 83-89 
Skeletons, Spy, 101 
Skull, Cro-Magnon, 73, 74 
Galilee, 126 
Gibraltar, 89-92 
La Chapelle, 117, 118 
Neanderthal, 86, 87 
implements, 
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