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A. Bowdoin Van Riper

Men among the Mammoths

284 pages,     © 1993
Series: Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series

Cloth $65.00

ISBN: 9780226849911   Published December 1993

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226849928   Published November 1993

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology
"Monkeyana"
1. Beyond the Present World
2. The Historical Archaeologists and Their Science
A Community and Its Beginnings
Historical Archaeology: Aims and Methods
Historical Archaeology and Prehistory
3. Geologists and Human Antiquity to 1858
Geologic Thought in the "Golden Age"
The Geological Community
Geologists and Human Antiquity
4. Solving a Geological Problem
Brixham Cave and Paleontology, January-June 1858
Brixham Cave and Human Antiquity, July-October 1858
Hugh Falconer in Europe, November 1858-March 1859
Completing the Solution, April-August 1859
The British Association Meetings, September 1859
5. Defending and Extending the Consensus
Defending the Data, July-December 1859
Gathering Corroborative Data, July 1859-December 1862
The Problem of Human Fossils
Lyell's Antiquity of Man
6. The Public Debate over Human Antiquity, 1859-75
The Structure of the Debate
The Problem of Absolute Age
The Impact of Human Antiquity
7. New Approaches to Prehistory
Historical Archaeologists and Prehistory, 1860-80
The Geological Archaeologists and Their Science
The Grand Alliance: Geology and Geological Archaeology
Heterodoxy and Hegemony
8. A New Way of Seeing
Appendix 1. Contents of National Archaeological Journals, 1850-75
Appendix 2. Commentaries on Human Antiquity, 1859-75
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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