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Visual history of mankind - Book One - Living in early times
1948 :: VISUAL HISTORY OF MANKIND :: BOOK
School book of picture-language charts on prehistoric and early human life, the first of three books in the Visual History of Mankind, prepared by Otto and Marie Neurath (directors of the Isotype Institute) and J. A. Lauwerys, with Lancelot Hogben as honorary editor. Its 21 charts cover the ages of man and ice ages, early man and animals, domestication of the dog and other animals, hunting, tools, getting and making fire, flint, copper and iron tools, uses of fire, coal and charcoal, lighting from torches to electricity, boats, bridges, moving heavy stones, lake dwellers, early farmers, making clothes, seasons on the Nile and in Britain, life by the Nile, and archaeological digging. Each chart is paired with numbered questions for pupils, followed by suggested activities and a reading list. Printed by Jarrold & Sons, Norwich.
