Bronze--The primitive Iron-worker--The advance in government--Pottery
and ornaments of the Iron Age--Weapons of early Iron Age--The
battle-field of Tilfenau--Trade of early Iron Age--Invention of
Money--Invention of Alphabetic Writing--Invasion of the Germanic
Tribes--The cause of the Dark Ages--Connection of these three
ages--Necessity of believing in an Extended Past--Attempts to determine
the same--Tiniere Delta--Lake Bienne--British Fen-lands--Maximum and
Minimum Data--Mr. Geikie's conclusions--The Isolation of the paleolithic
Age.

Chapter IX. EARLY MAN IN AMERICA.

Conflicting accounts of the American Aborigines--Recent
discoveries--Climate of California in Tertiary Times--Geological
changes near its close--Description of Table Mountain--Results of the
discoveries there--The Calaveras skull--Other relics--Discussion of the
question--Early Californians Neolithic--Explanation of this--Date of
the Pliocene Age--Other discoveries bearing on the Antiquity of man--Dr.
Koch's discovery--Discoveries in the Loess of Nebraska--In Greene
County, Ill.--In Georgia--Difficulties in detecting a Paleolithic Age
in this country--Dr. Abbott's discoveries--Paleolithic Implements of the
Delaware--Age of the deposits--The race of Paleolithic man--Ancestors of
the Eskimos--Comparison of Paleolithic Age in this country with that in
Europe--Eskimos one of the oldest races in the World.

Chapter X. THE MOUND BUILDERS.

Meaning of "Mound Builders"--Location of Mound Building tribes--All
Mounds not the work of men--Altar Mounds--Objects found on the
Altars--Altar Mounds possibly burial Mounds--Burial Mounds--Mounds
not the only Cemeteries of these tribes--Terraced Mounds--Cahokia
Mound--Historical notice of a group of Mounds--The Etowal
group--Signal Mounds--Effigy Mounds--How they represented different
animals--Explanation of the Effigy Mounds--Effigy Mounds in other
localities--Inclosures of the Scioto Valley--At Newark, Ohio--At
Marietta, Ohio--Graded Ways--Fortified Inclosures--Ft. Ancient,
Ohio--Inclosures of Northern Ohio--Works of unknown import--Ancient
Canals in Missouri--Implements and Weapons of Stone--Their knowledge of
Copper--Ancient mining--Ornamental pipes--Their knowledge of pottery--Of
Agriculture--Government and Religion--Hard to distinguish them from the
Indians.

Chapter XI. THE PUEBLO COUNTRY.

Description of the Pueblo Country--Historical outline--Description of
Zuni--Definition of a Pueblo--Old Zuni--