References.—Keary,[1] The Dawn of History. Starr, Some First Steps in Human Progress. Tylor, Anthropology, chaps. iv and vi, "Language" and "Writing"; and Primitive Culture, 2 vols. Lubbock, Prehistoric Times. Mason, Woman's Share in Primitive Culture. De Luce, Work and Workers Long Ago: An Introduction to the Study of History (announced for the fall of 1904). A special aim of this work is to illustrate and unfold in a way which will appeal to young readers the several subjects touched upon in this chapter. Joly, Man before Metals. Dawkins, Early Man in Britain. Hoernes, Primitive Man. Shaler, Domesticated Animals. Hoffmann, The Beginnings of Writing. Clodd, The Story of the Alphabet. Taylor, The Alphabet, 2 vols. Parts of this work are antiquated; the theory of the Egyptian origin of the alphabet is now discredited.
Topics for Special Study.—1. The relation of domesticated animals to man's progress in civilization. See especially Shaler. 2. The Age of Bronze. 3. Pottery as an element and index of civilization. 4. The origin of writing. See particularly Hoffmann, Clodd, and Mallery—the last in "Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1888–1889" (Smithsonian Reports).
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