Features a 45-page history by the author, accompanied by 52 full-page color plates from paintings by Zdenek Burian, each with an explanatory page of texT, Man Considers Himself, Prehistoric Man Appears on the Stage, Man's Animal Ancestors, The Australopithecinae of South Africa, The Quaternary-The Age of Human Life, Stone, The Foundation of Human Culture, Neanderthal Man Peoples the World, & Later Palaeolithic Man. The book covers the various stages in the development of early man, from Java Man to the late paleolithic period - man as hunter, gatherer, artist, burial customs, tool user, magic and religious rites, etc. Each plate has a facing page of explanatory text. Lavishly done.
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