Ancient Man in Britain, D.A. MacKenzie: Hardback: 1st Edition: Paleolithic

Ancient Man in Britain

By Donald A. MacKenzie.

Published by The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, 1922. First Edition. Hardback cover, 257 pages. Black & white illustrations.

CONDITION
Overall good condition - see photos. Some foxing to head, fore and bottom edges, and to some of the introductory pages. No names or writing. Images crisp & clear throughout.

In 1922, Mackenzie published Ancient Man in Britain, a work covering the history of Britain from Upper paleolithic times, from a strong ethnological basis. The foreword of the book was written by Grafton Elliot Smith. The work covers the earliest settlement of Britain by the first modern humans from around 35,000 years ago during the Aurignacian (pp. 19 - 27). In the book, Mackenzie maintains that the Caucasoid Cro-Magnons who settled in Britain were dark haired and dark eyed, racially akin to the French Basques, Iberians & Berbers of North Africa (p. 25), who he theorised were one of the earliest representatives of the Mediterranean race. This indigenous proto-Mediterranean racial stock was later invaded by another "variety of the Mediterranean race" who initiated the Solutrean culture around 20,000 years ago (p. 50),

Ancient Man in Britain presents the reader with the history of Britain from the Ice Age, until the Roman period. An exciting blend of social history and tangible experiences is delivered.

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