Prehistoric Man 2 Volume Set: Researches Into the Origin of Civilisation in the Old and the New World

by Daniel Wilson

The Scottish archaeologist and anthropologist Daniel Wilson (1816-92) spent the latter part of his life in Canada. Published in 1862, this is a seminal work in the study of early man in which Wilson utilises studies of native tribes 'still seen there in a condition which seems to reproduce some of the most familiar phases ascribed to the infancy of the unhistoric world'. He believed that civilisations initially developed in mild climates and judged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108054862
• ISBN13: 9781108054867
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 1026 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 5.7" x 8.5"