VIII : SOME RECENT WORKS ON THE 

 ANTIQUITY OF MAN* 



AMONGST many other cogent reasons, 

 the fact that the question of the antiquity 

 of man upon this planet is inextricably 

 mixed up with the problems of the Glacial Period 

 makes the consideration of that era in the world's 

 history one of the most interesting amongst the 

 subjects at present under debate in scientific 

 publications. It is enshrouded in darkness, yet 

 there are rifts in the cloud through which the 

 sky can clearly be seen, and the chief object of 

 this review is to indicate what things are and what 

 are not tolerably clearly proved or at least pro- 

 visionally accepted by those with most right to 

 speak on the subject. 



It must be admitted that it is not their voice 

 which is usually heard by the general public. The 

 discovery of ancient human remains and of late 

 years we have had several such of the first in- 

 terest forms far too tempting a subject for the 

 journalist to neglect, and, as he naturally desires 

 to make his account as picturesque as possible, 



* HOERNES. Der Diluviale Mensch in Europa. 1903. 

 SOLLAS. Ancient Hunters. Macmillan, 1911. 

 KEITH. Ancient Types of Man. Harpers, 1911. 

 DUCKWORTH. Prehistoric Man. Cambridge University Press, 



1912. 



WRIGHT, G. F. Origin and Antiquity of Man. Murray, 1912. 

 GEIKIE, JAS. The Antiquity of Man in Europe. Oliver & Boyd, 



1914. 

 WRIGHT, W. B. The Quaternary Ice Age. Macmillan, 1914. 



