INDEX 
Vertebrates, rise of, 12, 14 
Vicufia, wool of, 341 
“Virgins of the Sun,” 346, 347 
Virgins, vestal, 173 
Ww 
Wall decorations, 284 
War chariot, 285, 287, 288, 306, 
322 
War, effects of, 180 
Warfare in Bronze Age, 284-288 
of Assyrians, 306, 307 
Cretans, 311 
Indo-Europeans, 287 
primitive, 180 
War god of Aztecs see Huitzilo- 
pochtli 
Water craft in Middle Stone Age, 
240, 241, 276-278, 344 
Water, indispensable to life, 4 
Wealth of the Incas, 347 
Weapons, bronze, 324 
Bronze Age, 269-271 
iron, 324 
of Aztecs, 339 
of Incas, 342 
Weaving, invention of, 261 
of Mayas, 334 
of Peruvians, 342, 343 
materials for, 261, 262 
Weights and measures, 280 
Whales, ancient, 18 
Wheel, invention of, 256, 257 
Wheeled vehicles in Bronze Age 
2 
“Willow-leaf” implements, 207 
Wood as building material, 264, 
282, 283/330 
used by Mayas, 330, 331 
Wooden spear, 194 
Woodward, A. S., on Piltdown 
man, 135, 136, 138 
Women as farmers, 243, 328 
Writing, development of, 290 
importance of, 289 
in ancient India, 314, 315 
of Aztecs, 340 
of Mayas, 332-334 
Wiirm glacial stage, 66, 67, 71 
Z 
Zwigelaar, T., 157 
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