The Races of Europe by Carleton Stevens Coon



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Chapter I: Introduction to the Historical Study of the White Race

(1) Statement of Aims and Proposals

(2) Theory and Principles of the Concept Race

(3) Materials and Techniques of Osteology



Chapter II: Pleistocene White Men

(1) Introducing Homo Sapiens

(2) Pleistocene Climate

(3) Sapiens Men of the Middle Pleistocene

(4) Non-Sapiens Pleistocene Fossil Men

(5) The Neanderthal Hybrids of Palestine

(6) Upper Palaeolithic Man in Europe, the Evidence as a Whole

(7) Chronological and Geographical Differentiation of the

European Aurignacian Group

(8) Upper Palaeolithic Hunters of North Africa

(9) Aurignacian Man in East Africa

(10) The Magdalenians

(11) Upper Palaeolithic Man in China

(12) Summary and Conclusions



Plates accompanying Chapter II:



- Sapiens Men, from the Second Interglacial to the Post-Glacial

Mesolithic

- Neanderthal and Neanderthaloid Derivatives

- Broad-Headed Crania of Neanderthaloid Inspiration

- Mesolithic and Neolithic Crania of Mediterranean Type



Chapter III: The Mesolithic Period

(1) The Historical Setting

(2) Mesolithic Man in Africa

(3) The Natufians of Palestine

(4) The Midden-Dwellers of the Tagus

(5) Mesolithic Man in France

(6) The Ofnet Head Burials

(7) Mesolithic Man in the Crimea

(8) Palaeolithic Survivals in the Northwest

(9) Summary and Conclusions



Chapter IV: The Neolithic Invasions

(1) Introduction

(2) The Neolithic and the Mediterranean Race

(3) Iran and Iraq

(4) Civilized Men in Egypt

(5) Neolithic North Africa

(6) The Neolithic in Spain and Portugal

(7) The Eastern Source Areas: South, Central, and North

(8) The Danubian Culture Bearers

(9) The Corded or Battle-Axe People

(10) The Neolithic in the British Isles

(11) Western Europe and the Alpine Race

(12) Neolithic Scandinavia

(13) Neolithic Inhabitants of the Northern Forests

(14) Conclusions



Chapter V: The Bronze Age

(1) Introduction

(2) The Bronze Age in Western Asia

(3) The Minoans

(4) The Greeks

(5) Copper and Bronze in the Western Mediterranean

(6) Basques, phoenicians, and Etruscans

(7) The Copper Age in Europe North of the Mediterranean Lands:

Danubian Movements and Bell Beakers

(8) The Bronze Age in Britain

(9) The Bronze Age in Central Europe

(10) The Bronze Age in the North

(11) The Bronze Age on the Eastern Plains

(12) The Final Bronze Age and Cremation

(13) Summary and Conclusions



Chapter VI: The Iron Age

(1) Race, Language, and European Peoples

(2) The Illyrians

(3) The Kelts

(4) The Romans

(5) The Scythians

(6) The Germanic Peoples

(7) The Slavs

(8) Conclusions



Chapter VII: The Iron Age, Part II:

Speakers of Uralic and Altaic

(1) The Finno-Ugrians

(2) The Turks and Mongols

(3) Speakers of Uralic and Altaic, and Old World Racial Origins



