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Excerpt from Stone Age Paintings No one saw him take the precious red onaman sand from his medicine bag, or what he moistened it with before he painted the mysterious figures on the lichen-free rock face with an ochre-reddened finger. Nor could anyone even then have known what was passing through his mind. Was he in the hypnotic trance that long fasting can induce; so that later he would not be able to recognize the paintings as his own? Was he experiencing a new flow of confidence in his super-natural powers? Yet any Cree or Ojibway, coming unexpectedly on the artist at work, and quietly withdrawing lest he break the spell that was being created, would have known with whom the dreamer had been in touch. And any one of us, had we been such a person, would have believed beyond all doubt that the shaman could leave his body in a dream, and assume powers and properties that no waking human has; and we would have had no difficulty in accepting the idea that one could even enter the living rock. Often we would have heard the old people talk about the mysterious Maymaygway siwuk who lived inside the rock cliffs beside the water. We might even have seen our shaman-doctor rub a white paste on a grandmother's rheumatic arm, and watch her smile with relief as she felt the pain go. 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.

Excerpt from Early Art of the Northern Far East: The Stone Age Inasmuch as the object of our research in this monograph is small sculpture, particularly small stone sculpture, it may be of interest to review the history of the discovery of this kind of portable art. 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.

Excerpt from The Art of the Stone Age: Forty Thousand Years of Rock Art 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.

Excerpt from Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art Another great impression from this region is that it is the Oldest centre Of human habitation Of which we have a complete, unbroken record Of continuous residence from a period as remote as years corresponding with the dawn Of human culture, to the hamlets Of the modern peasant Of France Of A. D. 1915. In contrast, Egyptian, nean, and Mesopotamian civilizations appear as Of yesterday. 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.

Excerpt from Everyday Life in the Old Stone Age These spaces are as important as the events of History, and represent the periods when people were making up their minds; recovering perhaps from great disasters, or gathering their forces to go forward. 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.

Excerpt from The New Stone Age Whenever an industry experiences a comparatively short period of rapid development and its products are attractive for a very wide variety of uses there is almost sure to be a rich literature of considerable extent. In the case of cement and concrete much of the record concerns the application of the material and less of it than there should be is devoted to a discussion of the laws and principles underlying the whole industry. In any direction an abundance of material is to be found on our subject. The newspapers record this or that unique application. The technical and scientific press frequently devotes pages to timely discussions and any periodical concerned with nearly any phase of engineering is almost sure to refer to cement and concrete in every issue. The author has consulted and drawn from this store of information at every opportunity but obviously has not been able to review it all. He wishes to make acknowledgment for the assistance that has been received from Prof. Alfred H. White of the University of Michigan, H. Colin Campbell of the Portland Cement Association, Nathan C. Johnson and his old friend S. H. Salisbury, Jr. 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.

Excerpt from The New Stone Age in Northern Europe The dawn of history came late in Northern Europe and the morning was stormy. We see the Roman Empire struggling in vain to hold back successive swarms of barbarians, pouring from a dim, misty, mysterious northland. Centuries of destruction and confusion follow; then gradually states and institutions emerge, and final our own civilization, which, though still crude and semibarbarous, has its glories as well as its obvious defects. The growth, development, and training of these remarkable destroyers and rebuilders was slowly going on through the ages of prehistoric time. Most of the germs, and many of the determinants, of our modem institutions and civilization can be recognized in the habits, customs, and life of the Neolithic period. Hence the importance of its study to the historian and sociologist. It has left us an abundance of records, if we can decipher and interpret them. It opens with savages living on shell-heaps along the Baltic. 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.

Excerpt from The Cave Boy, of the Age of Stone This volume follows the author' 5 Days hojm 0 History. And deals with the Bronze Age in the same interesting and realistic manner as has secured such a great success for the earlier book. 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.