Pre Historic Collection

Geological Strata 19C
A schematic representation of geology and palaeontology

Fossils from the palaeozoic era
Life forms of the palaeozoic era (for identification of individual items, refer to the book page 13-14)

Knapped Flint Tools
A selection of flint and bones tools from a range of prehistoric eras incl. microliths used in compound tools of the mesolithic to earlier scrapers and choppers

Cave art paintings, prehistoric discovery
A cave painting of small brown and red stags with horses, composed in Greek style, between two large black bull heads. Cave art discoveries in the Dordogne were by the Aurignacians who sought refuge

SPAIN. Ribadesella. Tito Bustillo Cave. Shaggy rhinoceros. Upper Paleolithic. Magdalenian. Cave

Menhir Section / Bossenno
A cross-section of a large menhir, close to the site of the Bossenno; a cluster of prehistoric barrows, and a Gallo-Roman villa

Aepyornis on the Rampage
Butcher pursued by an Aepyornis Ingens, the prehistoric creature which emerges from the egg

Pueblo Pots
Pots of the Pueblo peoples of Arizona and New Mexico : the five lower pieces are prehistoric, the rest are of late 19th century Hopi and other tribes

Leech Cartoon Dinosaurs
The figures of prehistoric animals in the Palace grounds, created by Waterhouse Hawkins, are sufficiently realistic to frighten children

Prehistoric Monsters
THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT (Edgar Rice Burroughs) The travellers submarine is attacked by prehistoric monsters

Nebraska Man by Amedee Forestier
An artists vision of Hesperophiticus (The Ape-Man of the Western World) belonging to the Pliocene epoch. The picture was drawn by Forestier for The Illustrated London News following the discovery of

Fossil molar of Nebraska man
Drawing of a fossil molar found in Nebraska, believed belong to early man - hesperopithecus (Ape-Man of the Western World)

Animals and plants of the Carboniferous era
European landscape, with animals, during the Carboniferous Era

Prehistoric landscape during the Tertiary Era, Europe
View of a prehistoric landscape, with animals, during the Tertiary Era in Europe (Palaeocene to Pliocene)

Neolithic Stone Avenue - nr. Kestor Prehistoric Settlement, Dartmoor, Devon Date: circa 1910s

Wayland Smiths Cave, Berkshire, England. Formerly an underground chamber of some prehistoric king or priest. Wayland was a mythical smithy who made invincible swords. Date: BC

Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England. circa 2008

Craven Lodge Fancy Ball
A page from The Tatler, featuring photographs and a report on the Craven Lodge Fancy Ball in Melton, Leicestershire, a New Year party with a prehistoric fancy dress theme

Piltdown man reconstructed
The Piltdown man sketched by A. Forestier after Professor Keiths reconstruction, and an inset showing an alterative reconstruction after Dr. A. Smith Woodward

Gondwanaland - a reconstruction
A pictoral map of the Gondwana continent as it probably appeared before it was submerged millions of years ago. Reconstruction of typical Gondwana landscape

Crystal Palace Animals
Visitors to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, S.E.London, are both edified and entertained by the sculptures of prehistoric animals, created by Waterhouse Hawkins

Mastodon / Prehistoric US
A family of Mastodon, roaming the area of modern-day Manhattan Island. Bones of this large forerunner of the modern-day elephant have been found in this region

Men of the Stone Age worshipping the sun
Men of the Stone Age (Palaeolithic Era) worshipping the sun as it rises

Stone Age Art
Stone Age Man discovers art. A man shows off his interpretation of a horse, etched on a piece of horn by a stone knife, to an awe-struck audience. Date: Circa 12, 000 B.C

The Trew Origin of Trousers by W. Heath Robinson
The First Blush - or the Dawn of the sense of propriety. Heath Robinson imagines that trousers were invented when decency dictated that the legs of Stonehenge be covered up to spare the blushes of

Lady Richmond Brown and Baron Mitchell Hedges on the steps of a prehistoric ruin in the jungle south of Panama

Cave People 5000 Bc
Prehistoric cave dwellers

Pre-historic creature by Benjamin Hawkins
Watercolour by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

Pre-historic creatures by Benjamin Hawkins

A fantasy illustration of pre-historic reptiles
Illustration entitled The Age of Reptiles, by John Martin for Geology for Beginners by G. F. Richardson (1842)

SPAIN. BenajoᮮLa Pileta Cave. Prehistoric
SPAIN. Benajoᮮ La Pileta Cave. Prehistoric site. Upper Paleolithic. Magdalenian. Cave; Architecture

Bifaces from the Acheulean period. Lower Paleolithic. Proc: SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY)

SPAIN. El Perellave of La Cabra Freixet
SPAIN. El Perell ave of La Cabra Freixet. Deer (25000-15000 BC). Upper Paleolithic. Cave

Prehistory. The passing of Asian men to America. Work by Iker Larrauri located in the Sala de los Or� nes (Room of the Origins). MEXICO. Mexico City. National Museum of Anthropology

Who made the first boat?

Scandinavian hunter
A prehistoric Scandinavian hunter aims at an elk with his bow and arrow. Date: circa 3000 BC

Prehistoric landscape with various creatures
A prehistoric landscape with various creatures in the air, on land, and in the water. 19th century

Pioneer colonists head for Britain
A group of young men and women set off from the French coast in dug-out canoes, heading for Britain Date: Circa 4000 B.C

Stone Age Man hunting bison
A group of stone age men hunt down a bison, armed with primitive stone axes and spears Date: Circa 20, 000 B.C

Stones of Stenness
Orkneys, Scotland - The Standing Stones of Stenness on the Mainland, some prehistoric monoliths, probably the temple of a long vanished race

Lundy - Standing Stones
Lundy - an island in the Bristol Channel - Three megalthic standing stones Date: circa 1890s

The Castlerigg Stone Circle, Keswick
The Druids Circle - Keswick, Cumbria - The Castlerigg Stone Circle - one of the most visually impressive prehistoric stone monuments in the United Kingdom

Grandmere De Chimquiere
La Grandmere de Chimquiere, a stone fertility figure which stands beside St. Martins Church, Guernsey. A fine example of a prehistoric statue of the Earth Mother

Harolds Stone Row, Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales, said to commemorate a battle victory of King Harold, but more likely to be of prehistoric date. Date: 1950s

Salters Way
Salters way, above Hailes, Gloucestershire, England, part of an ancient trade route dating back to Prehistoric times. Date: BC

Callow Hill Trackway
A Prehistoric trackway on Callow Hill, near Winscombe, Somerset, England, pointing to Wavering Down, across the valley. Date: BC

The Grey Wethers, standing stones on Dartmoor, Devon, England, survivals of Prehistoric times, in the middle of the moor. Date: BC

Skull Reconstruction
Frau Erna von Engel Baiersdoef (Vienna Natural History Museum Austria), reconstructs the skull cast of an Aurignacian Prehistoric Man. The original skull was found in France. Date: 1930s

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