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Days Before history

Chapter 1: DAYS BEFORE HISTORY
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The work alternates a framed tale about a boy and his community in prehistoric times with explanatory chapters that relate those episodes to archaeological and ethnographic evidence. Narrative passages portray family life, hunting, toolmaking, pottery, water management, seasonal cycles, and rites of passage, while interludes discuss stone tools, food storage, and environmental adaptations. By pairing accessible scenes with sober commentary, it reconstructs plausible daily practices, social interactions, and technological shifts among early rural communities without claiming precise historical certainty.

UNIFORM WITH THIS BOOK

In Nature’s School

By LILIAN GASK

With Sixteen exquisite Full-page Illustrations and a Title-page Design

By DOROTHY HARDY



THIS STORY details the experiences of a sensitive boy who, in a moment of revolt, flees from the oppression of some cruel schoolfellows into the woods, where he meets Nature, who takes him round the world and shows to him her kingdom of fur and feather. The child is introduced to all manner of beasts and birds, and learns valuable lessons of kindness and toleration, while at the same time the facts of natural history are not distorted to serve the purpose of a story. Everything is true to facts, so far as they are known from observation and from the best authorities.

The Illustrations are of quite unusual merit, and will establish the claims of this talented artist to a place amongst the best English interpreters of animal life.

DAYS BEFORE
HISTORY

BY
H·R·HALL

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
A·M·RANDALL

George·G·Harrap·&·Co

15 York Street·Covent Garden

London

FIRST EDITION
November 1906, 5000; December 1907, 5000.

SECOND EDITION
Revised, Enlarged, and Newly Illustrated, September 1908, 3000.

Letchworth; At the Arden Press