Men among the Mammoths

ISBN-13: 9780226849928 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 288 str.

A. Bowdoin Van Riper

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A. Bowdoin Van Riper provides an account of how Victorian scientists raised and resolved the question of human antiquity. During the early part of the 19th century, scientists divided the history of the earth into a series of former worlds, populated by mammoths and other prehistoric animals, and a modern world, in which humans lived. According to this view, the human race was no older than 6000 years. The discovery of tools with mammoth bones, however, prompted a group of British geologists to argue in 1859 that the origin of humankind dated back to prehistoric times.