AN OUTLINE MAP OF EUROPE AT A PERIOD WHEN THE BRITISH ISLES AND 

 SCANDINAVIAN PENINSULA WERE A PART OE THE MAINLAND 



Europe- was then in the period of maximum continental elevation, in which the coast-lines 

 were widely extended, connecting Africa and Europe in a single vast peninsula and affording 

 free migration routes for animal and human races north and south, as well as east and west. 



records which show a continuous human 

 occupation of the region for at least a 

 hundred thousand years ; and French 

 archaeologists have taken the lead in 

 deciphering these records. The coun- 

 tries of Europe immediately surrounding 

 France also yield invaluable records ; and 

 in consequence our knowledge of the pre- 

 history of man is almost, but not quite, 

 confined to his development in Europe. 



All the earlier divisions of this prehis- 

 tory, stretching over an immeasurable 

 period of time, are included in the cul- 

 ture stage known as paleolithic, so called 

 because during these many hundreds of 

 centuries the successive races of men 

 used only chipped stone tools and imple- 

 ments. Following this immensely long 

 Old Stone Age came in quick succession 



the relatively short ages known as those 

 of New Stone, or polished stone, of 

 Bronze, and of Iron. 



THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK ON THE EVO- 

 LUTION OF MAN SINCE DARWIN'S 



"descent OF man" 



The best book dealing in concise form 

 with the hoary antiquity of man as he 

 was up to the end of paleolithic times has 

 just appeared and is by one of our fellow- 

 countrymen. The author is Henry Fair- 

 field Osborn, of the American Museum 

 of Natural History. 



Dr. Osborn's book covers in masterly 

 manner the Old Stone Age of Europe. 

 It therefore covers substantially all that 

 we now know of the development of hu- 



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