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Pre-Historic Times Modern Savages 1892 Illustrated Sir John

 
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Full title: Pre-Historic Times as Illustrated by Ancient Remains and Customs of Modern Savages.

Author: The Rt. Hon. Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., Principal of the London Working Men's College; President of the London Chamber of Commerce; and Chairman of the London County Council.

Fifth Edition, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1892.

Well illustrated with engravings of mostly items such as flint tools, Indian dolmens, and stone axes.

Chapter Titles:

On the Use of Bronze in Ancient Times
The Bronze Age
The Use of Stone in Ancient Times
Megalithic Monuments and Tumuli
The Ancient Lake-Habitants of Switzerland
The Danish Kjokkenmoddings, or Shell Mounds
North American Archeology
Quaternary Mammalia
Cave-Men
River-Drift Gravel-Beds
On the Antiquity of Man
Modern Savages (the most interesting chapter, discourse on Hottentots, Bushmen, Australians, Tasmanians, Maoris and tattooing, Tahiti, Esquimaux, North American Indians, Paraguay Indians, and others.)

Includes the deification of white men, curious customs, savages and children, witchcraft, and the "general wretchedness of savages", written in the modern Eurocentric tone common of books from this era.

637 Pages, including index. Hard-bound binding is in poor condition, all pages appear to be present.

 
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