The Story of Man. Human Evolution to the End of the Stone Age

Language: English

Published by Hutchinson of London, London England, 1959

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Hardcover. First Edition. The Story of Man. Human Evolution to the End of the Stone Age. Foxing to end inside covers. Wear and small tears to edge of D/J. Foxing to back D/J. The book begins by setting out the modern evidence for man's physical ancestry, putting Dryopithecus, Australopithecus, Heidelberg Man and the rest in their places. Mr. Mellersh then tells of man's first material achievements, his manipulation of flint; then come his spiritual achievements; his conquest of speech, his arts. An account of vae paintings leads to a discussion of magic and taboo. We follow man's further achievements, through the heroics of the great hunting age to the skills of the first farmers, the neolithic emblems that we now know as megalithic monuments. Always in his story of our ancestors' achievements Mr. Mellersh seeks to see beyond the bare facts and to explain what he sees in terms of mind and spirit. Man he visualizes, for all his animal ancestry, as essentially a thinker, a seer of visions - a 'creature of imagination'. Illustrated. 256 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

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Title
The Story of Man. Human Evolution to the End of the Stone Age
Author
H. E. L. Mellersh
Publisher
Hutchinson of London, London England
Publication year
1959
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Good
Binding
Cloth
Language
English
Illustrator
Sally Mellersh
Edition
First Edition
Dimensions
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo
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