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Everyday Life in Prehistoric Times (Classic Reprint)
Everyday Life in Prehistoric Times - Classic Reprint Author:Marjorie Quennell brother scientists who condemned this idea, pointing out that life must start at some definite point, and spread from this centre to other parts of the world. For the ordinary man, it seems sufficient to suppose that if you find the same kind of fossil in the limestones of America and England, and find the limestone itself in the same relative p... more »osition to the other strata, then if the two are not twin brothers they must be most nearly related. The modern scientist can find out by observation how long the delta of a river, or any other form of sediment, takes to accumulate. In this way they form a scale by which they can also estimate the age of the older deposits. To revert then to our strata: The Chart (p. xi) shows the Geological Periods and the stratified rocks. These latter are shown in the order in which they were deposited, starting from the bottom upwards. To illustrate this more fully, we give a section across Vales and England (Fig. 3). A B ~CI/J1D" H --
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; THE OLD STONE AGE; Contents, Introduction, etc; Chart; Text, including Figures 1-70; Index; fJ" 0 fare; THE NEW STONE, BRONZE; & EARLY IRON AGES; Con ten ts, I ntroduction, etc; Map and Chart CJ' 0 fact; THE NEW STONE AGE; Text, including Figures 1-44; THE BRONZE AGE ; Text, including Figures 45-6+; THE EARLY IRON AGE; Text, including Figures 65-90; Index; PAGES; I-X; x; 1-1°5; 107- 109; I-X; I-50; 51-8 I; 82-11 7; 1 18-1 19
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