Man's discovery of his past
Subtitle: a sourcebook of original articles
By: Robert F. Heizer
Contributors: Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Peek Publications
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Palo Alto, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Notes: Bibliographies, p. 275-291.

LC copy has provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation; originally collected by Elizabeth and Dudley Easby.
Table of contents: title: Of time and change. Strata of the Earth / Nicolaus Steno; title: Ancient history of mankind / A.Y. Goguet; title: Various periods to which heathen relics can be assigned / C.J. Thomsen; title: Fluorine dating of fossil bones / John Middleton; title: Solution of the Piltdown problem / J.S. Weiner, K.P. Oakley, W.E. Le Gros Clark; title: Further evidence on Piltdown / K.P. Oakley; title: Typological changes in British coins / John Evans; title: Time reckoning by tree ring counts / Charles Babbage; title: Assyrian-Egyptian cross-dating / Austen Layard; title: Radiocarbon dating / W.F. Libby, E.C. Anderson, J.R. Arnold.; title: Ancient implements. On Ceraunia cuneata / Michel Mercatus; title: Origin and uses of the thunderstone / Antoine de Jussieu; title: Beginnings of paleolithic archaeology / John Frere; title: General considerations on the phenomenon of bone caverns / M. Tournal; title: On antediluvian man and his works / Jacques Boucher de Perthes; title: Verification of Boucher de Perthes' claims / Joseph Prestwich; title: Paleolithic handaxe from Amiens / J.W. Flower; title: Proofs that man coexisted with extinct animals / Edward Lartet; title: First clear evidence of ancient man in North America / J.D. Figgins.; title: Bones of man. Discovery of the Neanderthal skull / D. Schaaffhausen; title: Pithecanthropus in Java / Eugene Dubois; title: First South African manlike ape / R.A. Dart; title: Calaveras hoax / J.D. Whitney.; title: Decipherment of ancient scripts. Secret of the Rosetta stone / J.F. Champollion; title: Decipherment of cuneiform / H.C. Rawlinson; title: Inscriptions of Assyria and Babylonia / H.C. Rawlinson.; title: Some early collectors. Greeks and Romans as archaeologists / A.J.B. Wace; title: Buying a Maya city / John L. Stephens.; title: Archaeologists at work. Grave 26, Sitio, Panama / S.K. Lothrop; title: Glimpse of Olmec ceremonialism / P. Drucker, R. Heizer, R. Squier; title: Tomb 7 at Monte Alban, Oaxaca / A. Caso.; title: References to general surveys of the history of archaeology; title: List of anthologies of archaeology; title: Bibliography of works cited.