An edition of Man's discovery of his past
(1969)
Man's discovery of his past
a sourcebook of original articles
by Robert Fleming Heizer
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Table of Contents
Of time and change. Strata of the Earth / Nicolaus Steno
Ancient history of mankind / A.Y. Goguet
Various periods to which heathen relics can be assigned / C.J. Thomsen
Fluorine dating of fossil bones / John Middleton
Solution of the Piltdown problem / J.S. Weiner, K.P. Oakley, W.E. Le Gros Clark
Further evidence on Piltdown / K.P. Oakley
Typological changes in British coins / John Evans
Time reckoning by tree ring counts / Charles Babbage
Assyrian-Egyptian cross-dating / Austen Layard
Radiocarbon dating / W.F. Libby, E.C. Anderson, J.R. Arnold.
Ancient implements. On Ceraunia cuneata / Michel Mercatus
Origin and uses of the thunderstone / Antoine de Jussieu
Beginnings of paleolithic archaeology / John Frere
General considerations on the phenomenon of bone caverns / M. Tournal
On antediluvian man and his works / Jacques Boucher de Perthes
Verification of Boucher de Perthes' claims / Joseph Prestwich
Paleolithic handaxe from Amiens / J.W. Flower
Proofs that man coexisted with extinct animals / Edward Lartet
First clear evidence of ancient man in North America / J.D. Figgins.
Bones of man. Discovery of the Neanderthal skull / D. Schaaffhausen
Pithecanthropus in Java / Eugene Dubois
First South African manlike ape / R.A. Dart
Calaveras hoax / J.D. Whitney.
Decipherment of ancient scripts. Secret of the Rosetta stone / J.F. Champollion
Decipherment of cuneiform / H.C. Rawlinson
Inscriptions of Assyria and Babylonia / H.C. Rawlinson.
Some early collectors. Greeks and Romans as archaeologists / A.J.B. Wace
Buying a Maya city / John L. Stephens.
Archaeologists at work. Grave 26, Sitio, Panama / S.K. Lothrop
Glimpse of Olmec ceremonialism / P. Drucker, R. Heizer, R. Squier
Tomb 7 at Monte Alban, Oaxaca / A. Caso.
References to general surveys of the history of archaeology
List of anthologies of archaeology
Bibliography of works cited.
Edition Notes
Bibliographies, p. 275-291.
LC copy has provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation; originally collected by Elizabeth and Dudley Easby.
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