The Antiquity of Man (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Arthur Keith
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ISBN: 9781332291465
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Excerpt from The Antiquity of Man Fully fifty years ago - in 1863, to be quite exact - Sir Charles Lyell told the story of the antiquity of man from a geologist's point of view. His book became a classic; the geologist came to be regarded as the official historian of ancient man. The modern successors of Sir Charles Lyell have maintained the position he established for them. In the books of Professor Boyd Dawkins, of Professor W. J. Sollas, of Dr G. Frederick Wright, and of Professor James Geikie, the world of our remote ancestors is made to live again. The antiquity of man, from a geologist's point of view, has thus been placed clearly and fully before the English reading public. In 1865, Lord Avebury - Sir John Lubbock he was then - approached the problem of man's antiquity from another point of view. He was primarily interested in the culture, the industry, the civilisation of ancient man; the geological details of the prehistoric landscape took a secondary place in his pictures of Prehistoric Times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.