TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. Weltanschauung
3. The Antarctic Epigraph
4. The Current Significance of the Antarctic Region
5. Geological and Glaciological Prehistory of the
Antarctic Continent
6. Sub-Saharan African Civilizations
7. Ancient Egyptian Civilization
8. Ancient Mesopotamian Civilization
9. Ancient Greek Civilization
10. Ancient Polytheistic Roman Civilization
11. Ancient Christian Roman Civilization,
the Western European Dark Ages,
and the Carolingian Renaissance
12. Celtic Civilization
13. Norse Civilization
14. Medieval Islamic Arabic Civilization
15. The High Middle Ages and the Renaissance
in Roman Catholic Europe
16. The Western European Age of Discovery
17. Early Modern Cartography in Western
Civilization
18. Antarctic Archaeology
19. An Antarctic Encounter
20. Modern Science Fiction and Speculative Studies
as Antarctic Folklore about the Premodern
Period
21. Ancient Persian Civilization
22. Indian Civilization
23. Chinese Civilization
24. Javanese and Malayan Civilizations
25. Australian Aboriginal Civilizations
26. Voyaging Accounts from Traditions of
Rarotongan Civilization
27. Tongan Civilization
28. Polynesian Civilizations of New Zealand
and of Hawaii
29. Native American Civilizations
30. Protocosmology
31. The Little Climatic Optimum
32. Further Research in Premodern Antarctic
World Ethnohistory
33. Further Research about the Antarctic Past
Bibliography