English translation by Mary E. Boyle. With attractive illustrations of the stone age by the author. 100 pp., b/w photos, col illus., 8vo, orig. cloth. Withdrawn from an insiutional library. Good. Signature and ownership stamp of Kenneth Page Oakley (1911-1981) to endpaper. Oakley was an English physical anthropologist, palaeontologist and geologist. Known for his relative dating of fossils using fluorine content, which was instrumental in the exposure of the famous Piltdown Man hoax in the 1950s. [49358]