HAWM 1:1: Mythologies of the Primitive Hunters and Gatherers

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Historical Atlas of World Mythology:
Volume 1: The Way of the Animal Powers
Part 1: Mythologies of the Primitive Hunters and Gatherers
by Joseph Campbell

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Table of Contents

PROLOGUE

The Mythological Dimension

• "Let There Be Light!" (Genesis 1:1 to 2:4)
• Out of One, the Many (Bridhadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.1-5)
• Forbidden Fruit (A Bassari Legend, Togo)
• The Light Within (A Polynesian Chant, Society Islands)
• Song of the World (A Pima Legend, Arizona)
• "Let It Thus Be Done!" (The Popul Vuh, Guatemala)

The Living Ground

• The Universe, The Earth, and Earth's Life
• Map 01: End of Permian
• Map 02: End of Triassic
• Map 03: End of Jurassic
• Map 04: Mid-Cretaceous
• Map 05: Mid-Cenozoic
• The Primate Connection
• Men and Tools of the Old Stone Age
• Map 06: Distribution of Hand-Ax and Chopper Industries

The Awakening Awe

The Peopling of the Earth

• Africa and Eurasia
• Map 07: Hominization and Dispersal: c.3,800,000 to 7700 B.C.
• Cranial Capacity and Tool Manufacture
• A Locus for Eden
• Old Melanesia
• Map 08: Old Melanesia, c.20,000 B.C.
• The Fossilized Past
• The Americas
• Map 09: Paleolithic Industries: c.38,000 to 33,000 B.C.
• Map 10: Paleolithic Industries: c.26,000 to 24,000 B.C.
• Map 11: Paleolithic Industries: c.18,000 B.C.
• Map 12: Paleolithic Industries: c.1038,000 B.C.
• Map 13: The Presence of Early Man in the New World
• Map 14: Beringland c.80,000 to 7000 B.C.
• The Five Basic Races
• Map 15: Surviving Primitive Cultures
• Map 16: Shifts of the Human Subspecies: Pleistocene Epoch
• Map 17: Shifts of the Human Subspecies: Post-Pleistocene
• Map 18: Shifts of the Human Subspecies: c. A.D. 1492

MYTHOLOGIES OF THE PRIMITIVE HUNTERS AND GATHERERS

Early Hunters of the Open Plains

• Map 19: Primary Burial and Rock Art Horizons
• The Recognition of Death
• Map 20: Neanderthal Sites: c.100,000 to 40,000 B.C.
• The Master Bear
• The Sentiment of Wonder
• The Temple Caves
• Map 21: Rock Art Sites in Southwestern Europe
• Symbols of the Female Power
• Map 22: Distribution of Venus Figurines
• The Shamans of the Caves
• Advent of the Bow and Arrow
• Culture Tides in Verdant Sahara
• Map 23: European and North African Rock Art Provinces
• The Bubalus Period, c.7000 to 4500 B.C.
• Period of the Round-Heads, from c.6000 B.C.
• The Bovidian or Pastoral Period, c.4000 to 1800 B.C.
• A Post-Bovidian Period of Egyptian Influences
• Map 24: North Africa and the Chariot Road
• The Chariot and Equestrian Periods, from c.1200 B.C.
• The Camel Period, from c.100 B.C. (?)
• South African Painted Rock Shrines
• Map 25: Southern Africa: Rock Art Sites
• The Bushman Trance Dance and Its Mythic Ground

Living Peoples of the Equatorial Forest

• Map 26: Local Foraging Tribes of the Old World Tropical Forests
• The Forest Song of the Pygmies
• Map 27: The Rain Forest Domain of the Pygmies
• Ancestral Caves of the Tasaday
• Map 28: Southeast Asia and Indonesia
• The Andaman Islanders
• Myths and Tales of the Andamanese
• In the Beginning
• The Wild-Pig Hunt
• Map 29: The Andamanese
• The Fire Theft
• The Catastrophe
• The Landscape Mythologized and the Origin of Death

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[This Table of Contents was originally posted to YouAreThat.org. I may have omitted some of the scholarly apparatus from this table of contents, such as Acknowledgements, the Index, etc.]

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