Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREHISTORIC MAN
- Frontispiece
- Colophon
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contents
- CHAPTER I Introduction
- CHAPTER II The old world and the new
- CHAPTER III The primeval occupation: speech
- CHAPTER IV The primeval transition: instinct
- CHAPTER V The Promethean instinct: fire
- CHAPTER VI The maritime instinct: the canoe
- CHAPTER VII The technological instinct: tools
- CHAPTER VIII The metallurgic instinct: copper
- CHAPTER IX The metallurgic arts: alloys
- CHAPTER X The architectural instinct: earthworks
- CHAPTER XI The hereafter: sepulchral mounds
- CHAPTER XII Propitiation: sacrificial mounds
- CHAPTER XIII Commemoration: symbolic mounds
- CHAPTER XIV Progress: native civilisation
- CHAPTER XV The artistic instinct: imitation
CHAPTER VIII - The metallurgic instinct: copper
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2015
- Frontmatter
- PREHISTORIC MAN
- Frontispiece
- Colophon
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contents
- CHAPTER I Introduction
- CHAPTER II The old world and the new
- CHAPTER III The primeval occupation: speech
- CHAPTER IV The primeval transition: instinct
- CHAPTER V The Promethean instinct: fire
- CHAPTER VI The maritime instinct: the canoe
- CHAPTER VII The technological instinct: tools
- CHAPTER VIII The metallurgic instinct: copper
- CHAPTER IX The metallurgic arts: alloys
- CHAPTER X The architectural instinct: earthworks
- CHAPTER XI The hereafter: sepulchral mounds
- CHAPTER XII Propitiation: sacrificial mounds
- CHAPTER XIII Commemoration: symbolic mounds
- CHAPTER XIV Progress: native civilisation
- CHAPTER XV The artistic instinct: imitation
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- Prehistoric ManResearches into the Origin of Civilisation in the Old and the New World, pp. 231 - 279Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012First published in: 1862