CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. GENERAL NATURE OF THE SUBJECT . .11 



II. THE WORLD BEFORE MAN 18 



III. THE EARLIEST TRACES OF MAN ... 27 



IV. THE PALANTHROPIC AGE 40 



V. SUBDIVISIONS AND CONDITIONS OF THE PAL- 

 ANTHROPIC AGE 69 



VI. END OF THE PALANTHROPIC AGE . . . 85 



VII. THE EARLY NEANTHROPIC AGE ... 94 



VIII. THE PALANTHROPIC -AGE IN THE LIGHT OF 



HISTORY 106 



IX. THE DELUGE OF NOAH 121 



X. SPECIAL QUESTIONS RESPECTING THE DELUGE 151 



XL THE PREHISTORIC AND HISTORIC IN THE EAST 164 



XII. THE NEANTHROPIC DISPERSION . . . . 183 



XIII. SUMMARY OF RESULTS 210 



INDEX ,,,,,,,,, 219 



