Ancient Types of Man (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Ancient Types of Man<br><br>In this little book the author has tried to give the chief conclusions he has reached after a prolonged study of the remains of ancient man. The reader will find that the scale of time which answers so well for present-day affairs will scarcely serve him when he comes to place ancient man in his proper perspective in the past. Instead of reckoning from a date which is dear to a large part of the world, viz. the Birth of Christ, he must begin at the present time and count steadily backwards into the past. The Metallic period is the first, one in which men have used copper, bronze, and iron - a period which we suppose to extend about 4000 years back. The metallic period was preceded by one in which Europeans used finely worked stones as implements, and hence it is usually named the Neolithic Period. It is a long period, probably six times as long as the metallic; it may be fixed provisionally at 25,000 years, but it was very probably much longer than that.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.