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

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

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

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

Nebraska Man by Amedee Forestier
An artists vision of Hesperophiticus (The Ape-Man of the Western World) belonging to the Pliocene epoch

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

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

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

Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England. circa 2008

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

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

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

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

Cave People 5000 Bc
Prehistoric cave dwellers

The Trew Origin of Trousers by W. Heath Robinson
The First Blush - or the Dawn of the sense of propriety

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

Prehistoric Lamp
The cave-dwellers light their caves with lamps made of clay, burning oil derived from animal fat

Animals and plants of the Triassic era
German landscape, with animals, during the Triassic Era

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

OX DROVE TRACKWAY
Ox Drove, a Prehistoric trackway, along the top of the Downs. A view taken from Wingreen, Wiltshire, England. Date: 1930s

Prehistoric Markstone
A Prehistoric Markstone, near the bridge and ford on the River Ver at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Date: BC

Prehistoric man by George Ranstead
Two cavemen seem to be having a jolly time firing arrows and throwing spears from the back of an unidentifiable beast

Two sightseers at Stonehenge, Wiltshire
Two late Victorian sightseers at Stonehenge, Wiltshire. One man sits on a flat stone (possibly the sacrificial stone), while the other man leans on his bicycle

Mammoth skeletons, Khanty Mansiysk, Russia
Two mammoth skeletons (female and young) on display in the museum at Khanty Mansiysk, Western Siberia, Russia

Mastodon remains in Indiana
Mastodon remains found near Cromwell in Indiana, USA, reported as a sensational paleontological discovery

M. Leon Coutier finishing a hand-axe of Acheulean type
How stone-age tools were made: a modern recontruction of prehistoric skill. Coutier seen striking light blows along the roughed-out edge with a boxwood hammer

Primitive Spinning Etc
Spinning and weaving among the lake-dwellers of prehistoric Europe

Colorado Vanished
Remains of a city dating back to prehistoric times have been discovered in Colorado, USA

Cry Pal Geological Gard
The GEOLOGICAL GARDEN, with its sculptures of prehistoric animals, is one of the most striking features in the grounds of the Palace

Extinct Animals 19C
A range of prehistoric animals in a rocky landscape

Malta / Hagar Qim / 1909
Hagar Qim Neolithic Temple built circa 2500 BC - one of the oldest free standing structures in the world

Ggantija Temple / Close-Up
The Ggantija Temples close to Xhagra on Gozo, part of the Maltese archipelago - dated to circa 3000 BC

Hagar Qim Megalith / Malta
The megaliths of Hagar Qim at Wied iz-Zurrieq in south-west Malta. These have been dated to circa 2500 BC

Ggantija Temples / Malta
The Ggantija temples close to Xhagra on Gozo on the Maltese archipelago - dated to 3000 BC

Ghar Dalam Cave / Malta
The Ghar Dalam (cave of darkness) a Neolithic site, dated to circa 5000 BC

Mnajdra Temples / Malta
The Temple complex at Mnajdra in south-west Malta, dated to circa 2500 BC

Rotary Quern Milling
Chinese worker grinds corn using a hand-powered rotary quern, a form of industrial machinery in use since late prehistoric times

Giant Elephant / La Nature
The skeleton of the giant elephant of Durfort on display in the new gallery of palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, Paris, France

Hunters feasting on horse flesh in prehistoric southern France

Construction of a prehistoric stone circle

Ichthyosaurus, with Plesiosaur and Pterodactyls
An Ichthyosaurus, with a Plesiosaur and Pterodactyls in a prehistoric landscape

Ichthyosaurus
An ichthyosaurus, whose name derives from the Greek words for fish and lizard

Mesozoic L scape
Landscape of the Mesozoic (Triassic, Jurassic or Cretaceous) era, showing dinosaurs and erupting volcanoes in the distance

Sculpting Animals
Waterstone Hawkins and an assistant in his workshop, creating the prehistoric animal sculptures for the grounds of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham

Megatherium Giant Sloth
The skeleton of a megatherium. Their huge claws meant that they couldn t put their feet flat on the ground and so, like anteaters, had to walk on the sides of their feet

Cave Man C5000Bc
A prehistoric cave man, with spears for hunting wild animals

Prehistoric Aviation
Our earliest ancestors were surely inventive enough to experiment with flight, even if their efforts were not always crowned with success

Prehistoric Commerce
Inhabitants of Hallstadt, in Upper Austria, engaged in manufacture and trade

Prehistoric Industry
Inhabitants of the Baltic island of Rugen engaged in making utensils of silex (flint)

ANCIENT DORSETSHIRE
Imaginary landscape of south- west England in prehistoric times, showing quite a diversity of creatures

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

Animals and plants of the post-Jurassic era
Scene and landscape, with animals, during the Cretaceous (post-Jurassic) era in southern England

Cave people fighting bears who are trying to gain possession of their caves

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