
audiobook
by marquis de Jean-François-Albert du Pouget Nadaillac
Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples - By The Marquis de Nadaillac - Correspondent of the Institute Author of “L’Amérique Préhistorique,” “Les Premiers Hommes et les Temps Préhistoriques,” etc. With 113 illustrations - Translated by Nancy Bell (N. D’Anvers) Author of “The Elementary History of Art,” “The Life-Story of Our Earth,” “The Story of Early Man,” etc.
Translator’s Note
Illustrations.
CHAPTER I. The Stone Age: its Duration and its Place in Time.
CHAPTER II. Food, Cannibalism, Mammals Fish, Hunting, and Fishing.
CHAPTER III. Weapons, Tools, Pottery; Origin of the Use of Fire, Clothing, Ornaments; Early Artistic Efforts.
CHAPTER IV. Caves, Kitchen-Middings, Lake Stations, “Terremares,” Crannoges, Burghs, “Nurhags,” “Talayoti,” and “Truddhi.”
CHAPTER V. Megalithic Monuments.
CHAPTER VI. Industry, Commerce, and Social Organization; Fights, Wounds and Trepanation.
CHAPTER VII. Camps, Fortifications, Vitrified Forts; Santorin; The Towns upon the Hill of Hissarlik.
Language
en
Duration
~9 hours (570K characters)
Release date
2002-07-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1818–1904
Best known for bringing prehistoric archaeology and anthropology to a broad readership, this 19th-century French writer explored ancient peoples in Europe and the Americas with an eye for big questions. His books helped popularize early human history at a time when the field was rapidly taking shape.
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