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Men Among the Mammoths Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory

by A. Bowdoin Van Riper

  • ISBN: 9780226849911
  • ISBN10: 0226849910

Men Among the Mammoths Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory

by A. Bowdoin Van Riper

  • List Price: $99.00
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
  • Publish date: 11/01/1993
  • ISBN: 9780226849911
  • ISBN10: 0226849910
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Description: List of Figures Acknowledgments A Note on Terminology "Monkeyana" 1. Beyond the Present World 2. The Historical Archaeologists and Their Science A Community and Its Beginnings Historical Archaeology: Aims and Methods Historical Archaeology and Prehistory 3. Geologists and Human Antiquity to 1858 Geologic Thought in the "Golden Age" The Geological Community Geologists and Human Antiquity 4. Solving a Geological Problem Brixham Cave and Paleontology, January-June 1858 Brixham Cave and Human Antiquity, July-October 1858 Hugh Falconer in Europe, November 1858-March 1859 Completing the Solution, April-August 1859 The British Association Meetings, September 1859 5. Defending and Extending the Consensus Defending the Data, July-December 1859 Gathering Corroborative Data, July 1859-December 1862 The Problem of Human Fossils Lyell's Antiquity of Man 6. The Public Debate over Human Antiquity, 1859-75 The Structure of the Debate The Problem of Absolute Age The Impact of Human Antiquity 7. New Approaches to Prehistory Historical Archaeologists and Prehistory, 1860-80 The Geological Archaeologists and Their Science The Grand Alliance: Geology and Geological Archaeology Heterodoxy and Hegemony 8. A New Way of Seeing Appendix 1. Contents of National Archaeological Journals, 1850-75 Appendix 2. Commentaries on Human Antiquity, 1859-75 Bibliography Index
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