Prehistoric peoples books

The origin and development of the moral ideas

Edward Westermarck

Edward Westermarck’s The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas is a scholarly survey of ethical theory…

Primitive culture, vol. 1 (of 2): Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, language, art, and custom

Edward B. Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor’s Primitive Culture is a scholarly survey that expands the scope of his earlier…

Ancient law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society

Sir Henry Sumner Maine

Sir Henry Sumner Maine’s Ancient Law is a scholarly treatise that sets out to rewrite the history of early…

Primitive culture, vol. 2 (of 2): Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, language, art, and custom

Edward B. Tylor

This volume is the second part of Edward Burnett Tylor’s extensive comparative study of primitive culture, in…

Ancient society: or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilization

Lewis Henry Morgan

Lewis Henry Morgan’s Ancient Society is a scholarly treatise that maps humanity’s long‑term development from…

The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races

Emory Adams Allen

The work is a sweeping survey of humanity’s earliest chapters, tracing vanished races from the glacial plains…

Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples

Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de

The book is a scholarly survey of prehistoric peoples, presented as a translated and updated French work by…

The origin of the family, private property, and the state

Friedrich Engels

The work is a scholarly synthesis that brings together the research of 19th‑century thinkers such as Lewis…

Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art

Henry Fairfield Osborn

Primitive Man

Louis Figuier

Sexual Life of Primitive People

Hans Fehlinger

Man and the Glacial Period

G. Frederick Wright

Prehistoric man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the Old and the New world

Sir Daniel Wilson

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders

T. Eric Peet

Human Origins

S. Laing

L'Humanité préhistorique

J. de Morgan

Psyche's task: A discourse concerning the influence of superstition on the growth of institutions

James George Frazer

Prehistoric Men

Robert J. Braidwood

Les primitifs: Études d'ethnologie comparée

Élie Reclus

Prehistoric man

W. L. H. Duckworth

L'origine della Famiglia della Proprietà privata e dello Stato in relazione alle ricerche di L. H. Morgan

Friedrich Engels

Der Unterkiefer des Homo Heidelbergensis: Aus den Sanden von Mauer bei Heidelberg

Otto Schoetensack

The Meeting-Place of Geology and History

Sir John William Dawson

Primitive Manners and Customs

James Anson Farrer