The story of man
Subtitle: from the first human to primitive culture and beyond.
By: Line drawings by Richard Albany, photos. by Reuben Goldberg.
Edition: 3d ed., rev.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 438
Subjects: Anthropology.
Table of contents: title: The earliest men. Four phases of history -- Adventure on the ground -- On standing erect -- Free-moving arms and grasping hands -- Sharp-focusing eyes -- A reasoning brain -- The power of speech -- Of chewing and fighting -- Fossil apes -- The Pleistocene or age of ice -- The australopithecines -- Of giant apes and snowmen -- On classifying fossil men -- The history of homo erectus -- The rise and spread of homo sapiens -- The Neanderthals -- An outline of early human history -- Of flint, fire, and early society. Early cutting tools, a logical premise -- The properties of flint -- The tools of homo erectus -- From pebble tools to hand axes -- Flake tools -- What the tools tell us -- Prometheus discovers fire -- Oedipus goes to school -- Pandora frees and joins the spirits -- The skilled hunter and healer. The second phase of history -- Man covers the face of the earth and becomes one species -- The tools behind his expansion and consolidation -- He invents the bow -- Man’s second source of energy : the dog -- Ancient methods of hunting and fishing -- Of primitive arts and industries -- Of early transportation -- The social and intellectual life of late ice age hunters -- Ice age institutions -- Healing : the oldest profession -- The hunter needs no hobby -- The tiller and herdsman. The third phase of history -- The nature of the Neolithic -- The beginnings of cultivation -- The animals enter the barnyard -- Man toys with the forces of nature -- The earliest farmers : the archaeological evidence -- Carbon-14 dating -- Neolithic migrations in the old world -- The cold and the sea. the Eskimos occupy the treeless arctic -- The Neolithic island paradise of Hawaii -- Western Neolithic culture survives in the Atlantic -- Sex and magic in the Neolithic -- The power of the sun. The barrier of race -- Scientific procedure and racial systems -- Popular attitudes toward race -- Man’s five geographical ranges -- An outline of racial history -- Ecological rules governing size, shape, and color -- Their application to man -- The meaning of race -- Wheels, metal, and writing. The significance of the Bronze Age -- Egyptian civilization of the early Bronze Age -- The Sumerians trade by land and sea -- The Hittites drive chariots over the mountains -- Gods and heroes of Homer’s Greece -- Iron and empire. Iron Age technology -- On slaves and special peoples -- Persia : the first empire -- Democracy in Athens -- The Roman Empire -- The Byzantine bureaucracy -- The golden age in pagan Ireland -- Iron Age religious institutions -- The rise of associations -- The emergence and growth of educational institutions -- Gunpowder. Wind, water, and steel -- With cannon and Bibles he sailed the seven seas -- The academy at Sagres -- The Portuguese sail to Africa and to India -- The cultural history of India -- Chinese civilization -- Japan opens and closes her ports -- A new world.  The discovery of America -- The transpacific problem -- The impact of the new world on the old -- The Spanish colonial empire -- The British and Dutch found incorporated trading companies -- From coke to atoms. The sword of destruction -- The story of coke -- New sources of energy -- Electricity and atomic energy -- Transportation breaks the sonic barrier -- Communication nears the speed of light -- The second conquest of climate -- Science is international -- Institutions mushroom and approach a climax -- The rise of America -- The social structure of the U.S.S.R. -- The perilous dawn of the fourth phase of history -- A vision of paradise. The main line of history -- Communication, institutions, and science -- Man approaches a climax in cosmic history -- The land of youth -- Glossary.