People dwelt in grass houses, not bees! Photograph by the author.
Figure 1. Women pounding grain. Photograph by the author.
Figure 2. A `milk tree.' Photograph by the author.
Figure 3. A fresh cut in a milk tree. Photograph by the author.
Figure 4. A fresh cut and an old 'scab' on a blood-wood tree. Photograph by the author.
The author's source of a Central African Flood story. Photograph by the author.
Figure 5. A general view of a Baobab tree. Photograph by the author.
Figure 6. Detail of a Baobab tree. Photograph by the author.
Figure 7. Fragment of a steatite pyxis from Knossos.
Figure 8. A gold signet ring from Mycenae. Photograph by the author.
Figure 9. Intaglio on a steatite lentoid from Ligortino, Crete.
Figure 10a. A young fruit tree fenced against goats. Photograph by the author.
Figure 10b. A fence that failed. Photograph by the author.
Figure 11. A gold signet ring from Knossos. Photograph by the author.
Figure 12. A gold signet ring from Crete. Photograph by the author.
Figure 13. A gold signet ring from Asia Minor.
Figure 14. A gold signet ring from Mochlos. After Seager, Explorations in the Island of Mochlos, fig. 52; the original ring is lost.
Figure 15. A gold signet ring from Mycenae. Photograph by the author.
Figure 16. A gold signet ring from Mycenae.
Figure 17. Impression of a gold signet ring. After Martin P. Nilsson, The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion, plate 1, 2. Some have thought this ring a forgery.
Figure 18. A gold signet ring from Mycenae. Photograph by the author.
Figure 19. A gold signet ring.
Figure 20. A gold signet ring from the Vapheio tomb at Mycenae. Photograph by the author.
Figure 21. A gold signet ring from Mycenae. Photograph by the author.
Figure 22. Shard of a vase from Cyprus.
Figure 23. Intaglio on a lentoid gem from Goulas, Crete.
Figure 24. Impression of a crystal signet ring from Mycenae.
Figure 25. Impression of a lentoid gem from Mycenae.
Figure 26. The Lion Gate of Mycenae. Photograph by the author.
Figure 27. The pillar-and-lion relief over the gate at Mycenae. Photograph by the author.
Figure 28. Intaglio on a lentoid gem from Zero, Crete.
Figure 29. A gold signet ring from Mycenae.
Figure 30. Impression of a lentoid gem from Mycenae. Photograph by the author.
Figure 31. A gold signet ring from Mycenae. Photograph by the author.
Figure 32. Intaglio on a lentoid gem from Kydonia, Crete.
Figure 33. A signet ring of electron from Mycenae. Photograph by the author.
Figure 34. Fresco on a sarcophagus from Hagia Triada. Photograph by the author.
Figure 34a. Fresco on a sarcophagus from Hagia Triada, converse panel, detail of offering.
Figure 34b. Fresco on a sarcophagus from Hagia Triada, converse panel, detail of sacrificial animals.
Figure 35. A relief of Gilgamesh. Photograph by the author.
Figure 36. Impression of a carnelian cylinder seal.*
Figure 37. Impression of a cylinder seal of white calcedony.*
Figure 38. Impression from a cylinder seal of green and white siliceous stone.*
Figure 39. Impression from a cylinder seal of yellowish chert.*
Figure 40. Impression from a cylinder seal of brown and grey jasper breccia.*
Figure 41. Impression from a cylinder seal of greenish calcedony.*
Figure 42. Impression from a cylinder seal of bluish calcedony.*
Figure 43. Impression from a cylinder seal of black serpentine.*
Figure 44. Impression from a damaged cylinder seal of pink chert.*
Figure 45. Impression from a cylinder seal showing a hero with griffins and a tree.
Figure 46a. A women's mural painting from Moravia. After H. Th. Bossert, Ornamente der Folkskunst (Neue Folge).
Figures 46b-e. Views of the painted mosque in Travnik, Yugoslavia. Photographs by the author.
Figure 47. Impression from a cylinder seal of greenish black and olive buff serpentine.*
Figure 48. Impression from a concave shell cylinder seal.*
Figure 49. Impression of a cylinder sea] from Tell Asmar.
Figure 50. Impression from a cylinder seal in the British Museum.
Figure 51. Impression from a cylinder seal showing a scene of offertory.
Figure 52. Impression of a cylinder seal showing an offertorial procession.
Figure 53. Impression of a cylinder seal showing the feeding of cattle.
Figure 54. Impression from a cylinder seal showing the feeding of small livestock.
Figure 55. Impression from a cylinder seal showing green tree and herbivores.
Figure 56. A cylinder seal.*
Figure 57. Impression from the cylinder seal shown in Fig. 56.*
Figure 58. Impression from a cylinder seal.
Figure 59. Impression from a cylinder seal.
Figure 60. Impression from a cylinder seal of whitish calcedony.*
Figure 61. Impression from a cylinder seal in Geneva.
Figure 62. Impression from a cylinder seal in Berlin.
Figure 63. Impression from a cylinder seal of black serpentine.*
Figure 64. Impression from a cylinder seal of black serpentine.*
Figure 65. Impression from a cylinder seal of orange chert.*
Figure 66. Impression from a cylinder seal of black serpentine.*
"The Horn-Snake," a drawing by John McLenan for the frontispiece in Harden E. Taliaferro, Fisher's River (North Carolina): Scenes and Characters, New York, 1859.
Figure 67. Detail (scene of impalement) from a prospect of Papa, Hungary.
Detail from a drawing by Grandville (Jean I.I. Gérard) from his collection Un Autre Monde, Paris, 1844.
* Thanks are due to the Trustees of the Pierpont Morgan Library for permission to publish the photographs of objects in their collection indicated by the asterisk.