Books with author Donald MacK

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This book is an illustrated version of the original Ancient Man in Britain by Donald A. Mackenzie. “The physical characters of a series of skulls can give no reliable information unless their exact provenance and relative age are known. But the interpretation of the meaning of these characters cannot be made unless we know something of the movements of the people and the distinctive peculiarities of the inhabitants of the foreign lands from which they may have come. No less important than the study of their physical structure is the cultural history of peoples. The real spirit of a population is revealed by its social and industrial achievements, and by its customs and beliefs, rather than by the shape of the heads and members of its units. The revival of the belief in the widespread diffusion of culture in early times has, as one of its many important effects, directed attention to the physical peculiarities of the mixed populations of important foci of civilization throughout the world.”

This volume deals with the history of man in Britain from the Ice Age till the Roman period. The evidence is gleaned from the various sciences which are usually studied apart, including geology, archæology, philology, ethnology or anthropology, &c., and the writer has set himself to tell the story of Ancient Man in a manner which will interest a wider circle of readers than is usually reached by purely technical books. It has not been assumed that the representatives of Modern Man who first settled in Europe were simple-minded savages. The evidence afforded by the craftsmanship, the burial customs, and the art of the Crô-Magnon races, those contemporaries of the reindeer and the hairy mammoth in South-western France, suggests that they had been influenced by a centre of civilization in which considerable progress had already been achieved. There is absolutely no evidence that the pioneers were lacking in intelligence or foresight. If we are to judge merely by their skeletons and the shapes and sizes of their skulls, it would appear that they were, if anything, both physically and mentally superior to the average present-day inhabitants of Europe. Nor were they entirely isolated from the ancient culture area by which they had been originally influenced. As is shown, the evidence afforded by an Indian Ocean sea-shell, found in a Crô-Magnon burial cavern near Mentone, indicates that much has yet to be discovered regarding the activities of the early people...

This volume deals with the myths and legends connected with the ancient civilization of Crete, and also with the rise and growth of the civilization itself, while consideration is given to various fascinating and important problems that arise in the course of investigating pre-Hellenic habits of thought and habits of life, which are found to have exercised a marked influence in the early history of Europe.

The Races and Early Civilization of Babylonia The Land of Rivers and the God of the DeepRival Pantheons and Representative DeitiesDemons, Fairies, and GhostsMyths of Tammuz and IshtarWars of the City States of Sumer and AkkadCreation Legend: Merodach the Dragon SlayerDeified Heroes: Etana and GilgameshDeluge Legend, the Island of the Blessed, and HadesBuildings and Laws and Customs of BabylonThe Golden Age of BabyloniaRise of the Hittites, Mitannians, Kassites, Hyksos, and AssyriansAstrology and AstronomyAshur the National God of AssyriaConflicts for Trade and SupremacyRace Movements that Shattered EmpiresThe Hebrews in Assyrian HistoryThe Age of SemiramisAssyria's Age of SplendourThe Last Days of Assyria and Babylonia