The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain

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Author

Evans, John, 1823-1908

Title

The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain Second Edition, Revised

Credits

E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, RichardW, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

GN: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Anthropology

Subject

Stone age -- Great Britain

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 51960

Release Date

May 2, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The An­cient Stone Im­ple­ments, Wea­pons and Orn­a­ments, of Great Bri­tain; Se­cond Edi­tion, Re­vised; By Sir John Ev­ans.
2. 2.PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
3. 3.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. — CONTENTS. — WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS.
4. 4.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. ON THE MANUFACTURE OF STONE IMPLEMENTS IN PREHISTORIC TIMES. [54]
6. 6.IMPLEMENTS OF THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD. — CHAPTER III. CELTS.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. CHIPPED OR ROUGH-HEWN CELTS.
8. 8.CHAPTER V. CELTS GROUND AT THE EDGE ONLY.
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. POLISHED CELTS.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. PICKS, CHISELS, GOUGES, ETC.
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. PERFORATED AXES.
12. 12.CHAPTER IX. PERFORATED AND GROOVED HAMMERS.
13. 13.CHAPTER X. HAMMER-STONES, ETC.
14. 14.CHAPTER XI. GRINDING-STONES AND WHETSTONES.
15. 15.CHAPTER XII. FLINT FLAKES, CORES, ETC.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII. SCRAPERS.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV. BORERS, AWLS, OR DRILLS.
18. 18.CHAPTER XV. TRIMMED FLAKES, KNIVES, ETC.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI. JAVELIN AND ARROW HEADS.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII. FABRICATORS, FLAKING TOOLS, ETC.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII. SLING-STONES AND BALLS.
22. 22.CHAPTER XIX. BRACERS, AND ARTICLES OF BONE.
23. 23.CHAPTER XX. SPINDLE-WHORLS, DISCS, SLICKSTONES, WEIGHTS, AND CUPS.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXI. PERSONAL ORNAMENTS, AMULETS, ETC.
25. 25.IMPLEMENTS OF THE PALÆOLITHIC PERIOD. — CHAPTER XXII. CAVE IMPLEMENTS. — KENT’S CAVERN, TORQUAY. — BRIXHAM CAVE, TORQUAY. — THE TOR BRYAN CAVES. — THE WOOKEY HYÆNA DEN. — LONG HOLE, GOWER, AND OTHER CAVES.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII. IMPLEMENTS OF THE RIVER-DRIFT PERIOD.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV. FORMS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF IMPLEMENTS FROM THE RIVER-DRIFT. — FLAKES. — TRIMMED FLAKES. — POINTED IMPLEMENTS. — SHARP-RIMMED IMPLEMENTS.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXV. ANTIQUITY OF THE RIVER-DRIFT. — DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. — GENERAL INDEX. — INDEX, GEOGRAPHICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL. — NOTES—CHAPTER I. — NOTES—CHAPTER II. — NOTES—CHAPTER III. — NOTES—CHAPTER IV. — NOTES—CHAPTER V. — NOTES—CHAPTER VI. — NOTES—CHAPTER VII. — NOTES—CHAPTER VIII. — NOTES—CHAPTER IX. — NOTES—CHAPTER X. — NOTES—CHAPTER XI. — NOTES—CHAPTER XII. — NOTES—CHAPTER XIII. — NOTES—CHAPTER XIV. — NOTES—CHAPTER XV. — NOTES—CHAPTER XVI. — NOTES—CHAPTER XVII. — NOTES—CHAPTER XVIII. — NOTES—CHAPTER XIX. — NOTES—CHAPTER XX. — NOTES—CHAPTER XXI. — NOTES—CHAPTER XXII. — NOTES—CHAPTER XXIII. — NOTES—CHAPTER XXIV. — NOTES—CHAPTER XXV.
29. 29.Untitled

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