INDEX. 



505 



Meals, solitary in Tahiti, 383. 

 Measurement, standard of, known to 

 earthwork-builders of North Ame- 

 rica, 210. 

 Megaceros hibernicus, geographical 



range of, 239. 



Meilgaard, shell-mound at, 175. 

 Menchecourt, gravel pits at, 304. 

 Mental condition, language a test of, 



465. 

 ,, ,, of savage tribes, 



462, 475. 

 Merry on the use of the boomerang, 



352. 

 Metal, knowledge of in Europe, Asia, 



and Africa, 338. 

 Mexican paintings, 201. 



simultaneous use of metal and 



stone implements by, 62. 

 Migration of man, 476. 

 Minatarees, huts of, 216. 

 Mincopies, 345. 

 Mississippi valley, date of monuments 



in, 231. 



delta of, 324. 



Missouri, mastodon found kille'd by 



human agency in, 234. 

 Mistletoe, reference by Pliny to, 168. 

 Moa, egg of, in Maori grave, 369. 

 Modern savages, 335. 



,, comparative table of 

 implements, etc., 

 used by, 447. 



,, different degrees of 

 civilisation amongst, 

 445. 



Mollusca found at St. Acheul, 289. 

 of drift gravels, 305. 

 evidence of 



Arctic cli- 

 mate, 294. 

 Moon worship, 168. 

 Morai or burial place in Tahiti, 385. 

 Moral inferiority of savages, 465. 

 Merges, bronze implements from, 19. 

 Morlot, chronological indications of the 



cone of the Tiniere, 318. 

 cone de la Tiniere, 316, 323. 

 Phoenicians, traces of in Ame- 

 rica, 46. 

 ,, on chronological calculations 



from deposits, 328. 

 Mouatt, Andaman Islanders, 345. 

 Mound-builders of America, 228. 



of America, standard 



of measurement 

 known to, 210. 

 Mound burial, 86. 



historical references, 86. 



Mound burial, Scripture references, 86. 



Music of Esquimaux, 408, 



Musical instruments of Maories, 369. 



,, Tahitians, 378. 



Mutilated bones in pile-dwellings, 140. 

 * shell-mounds, 183. 



Myodes torquatus, 305. 



N. 



Natchez Indians, dwellings of, 221. 

 Natural selection, applied to the human 



race, 478. 

 force of, influenced 



by man, 481. 

 Neanderthal skull, 330. 

 Negrito, 355. 

 Neolithic period, 3, 60. 

 Nephrite, implements in lake-habita- 

 tions formed of, 134. 

 Newark, North America, earthworks 



near, 210. 



New York, State of, ancient monu- 

 ments in, 199. 



New Zealand, quadrupeds in, 366. 

 New Zealanders. See Maories. 

 Nidau, bronze implements from, 19. 



,, metal objects from, 4. 

 Niebelungen Lied, aurochs mentioned 



in, 150, 242. 



supposed allusion 



to Irish elk, 240. 



urus mentioned in, 



243. 



Nigaard glacier, the, 315. 

 Nile valley, 320. 



Homer's researches, 321. 



probable age of deposits, 



321. 



Sir C. Lyell on, 322. 

 Nilsson, on Baal worship in Norway, 47. 

 Bronze age, 36. 

 ornamentation of Bronze 



age, 48. 



passage graves, 89. 

 Phoenicians in Norway, 46. 

 Semitic character of Bronze 



age ornamentation, 48. 

 voyages of Pytheas, 43. 

 young ice, 41. 

 North America, ancient pottery of, 204. 

 American archeology, 198. 



,, authorities, 



198. 



Indians, 412. 

 agriculture of, 



422. 



belief in a future 



state by, 416. 



