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Early Man
This
was the first book in the sub-series Knowing World History,
published in 1978. It proved very popular and is much valued
as a resource.
Drawings
include: An Archaeological Trenching System, African Sites,
Mammoth Trap, Cro-Magnon Tools, Cave Paintings, Making a
Coil Pot, Mesolithic Hafted Axe, Lake Villages, Flint Mine,
Bronze Age Plough, Round Barrows, Rotary Quern etc.
From
Chapter 3 Evidence from Africa
Later finds, particularly those made by Dr. Robert Broome
in the limestone quarries at Sterkfontein near Johannesburg
in South Africa, confirmed the views of Professor Dart.
It is now generally accepted that the Australopithecines
were a pre-human form of life, different from apes and nearer
to man----------
From
Chapter 8 Cro-Magnon People
The first flint tools made by the Cro-Magnon people were
used to carve other articles from wood, bone, and the antlers
of reindeer. You can see some of these beautifully made
items in the picture on the right.
From
Chapter 11 Cave Artists
In 1940 four French schoolboys accidentally made one of the
greatest archaeological finds of all time.
From
Chapter 16
Neolithic women used strong bone needles to make clothes
for the family from animal skins and they wove baskets from
reeds and made clay pots. These were the first saucepans
and they meant that food could be boiled more easily.
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