MAN BEFORE METALS 



By N. JOIiY, 



Professor at the Science Faculty of Toulouse. 



"With 148 Illustrations. - - . . 12mo, cloth, $1.75. 



CONTENTS.— Taut T. The Antiquity of the IltrMA-N Race : I. The Pre- 

 hij^toric Ages ; I[. Tiie Work of Boucher de Pertlies ; III. The Bone Caves ; IV. 

 The Peat Mosses and the Kitchen Middens ; V. The L:ike Dwellings and the 

 Nuraghi: VI. Burial Places; VII. Prehistoric Man in America; VIII. Man of 

 the Tertiary Epoch; IX. The Great Antiquity of Man. Part II. Primitive 

 Civilization: I. Domestic Life ; II. Indu^^try ; III. Agriculture ; IV. Naviga- 

 tion and Commerce ; V. The Fine Arts ; VI. Language aud Writing; VII. Kc- 

 ligion ; VIII. The Portrait of Quaternary Man. 



" The discussion of man's origin and early history, by Professor De Quatre- 

 fagcs, formed ooe of the most useful volumes in the ' international Scientific Se- 

 ries,' and the same collection is now further enriched by a popular treatise <»n 

 paleontology by M. N. Joly, Professor in the University of Toulouse. The title 

 of the boot, ' Man before Metals,' indicates the limitations of the writer's theme. 

 His object is to bring together the numerous proofs, collected by modern research, 

 of the great age of the human race, and to show us what man was, in respect of 

 customs, industries, and moral of religious ideas, before the use of metals was 

 known to him." — Neto York Sun. 



" Professor Joly's ' Man before Metals ' is a good elementary hand-book on 

 primitive humanity. The author gives somewhat in detail the various proofs 

 with regard to the antiquity of man, including chapters on prehistoric man in 

 America, and man of the Tertiary epoch. The second part of the book deals with 

 primitive civilization, with chapters on the development of domestic life, indus- 

 try, agriculture, navigation and commerce, the fine arts, language and writing, 

 and religious ideas. Professor Joly pictures man dnrirg the Quaternary age as 

 living in caves, subsisting largely on raw flesh, although fire had long been known, 

 armed with stone hunting implements, and clothed in skins which were sewed 

 together by means of the bone needle. The indications of cannibalism and liu- 

 man sacrifice Professor Joly regards as 'overwhelming.' But in spite of these 

 barbarous customs Quaternary man resembled his descendants of to-day ' in all 

 essential points.' ' He was man in all senses of the word— anatomically, intel- 

 lectually, and morally.' " — Boston Daily Evening Traveller. 



" An interesting, not to say fascinating, volume."— iVisti; Yo7-k Churchman. 



" M. Joly's hook sums up the discoveries of modem science bearing on the 

 primeval history of man, on the antiquity of the human race, and on the circum- 

 stances attending its slow and partial ascent to the modern level of civilization. 

 It also presents with brevity but thoroughness the generally accepted theories 

 relating to the habits and environment of primitive man. Its usefulness nnd in- 

 terest are much increased by numerous and excellent illustrations. "—/y«/arft^ 

 jjhia North American. 



" This is a book worth owning." — New York Christian Advocate. 



" It is a book of value for study or for readers generally, and the many impor- 

 t!int discoveries of comparatively recent date give it special interest to American 

 scholars, who have made so many of them." — New Haven Daily Palladium. 



" Profe'^sor Joly does not even attempt to guess at the age of prehistoric man. 

 Many times ten thousand years is probably as near as reasonable conjecture can 

 come to it. The chapters are on general notions of the structure of the earth, 

 the splintered rocks of Abbeville, the bone-caves, the Danish peat-mosses, the 

 lake-dwellings of Switzerland, various modes of sepulture, prehistoric man in 

 America, man of the Tertiary epoch, the great antiquity ol man, the origin of the 

 rise of fire, the making of stone implements, primitive agriculture, navigation, 

 arts of desiirn in caves, the origin of speech, religious ideas of primitive man, 

 aud the portrait of Quaternary man."— Cmd/ma^i Commercial- Gazette. 



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