THE NEANDERTHAL MAN. 



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Otherwise it would justify the post-mortem statement of a 

 violent death. 



Accordingly the life of the Neanderthal man must 

 have been one of fierce struggle either with rivals of his 

 own type or with the cave bear and other ferocious beasts, 

 perhaps with both, and finally he succumbed in the battle 

 for life, perhaps also in a fight with his own or his tribe's 

 enemies. 



The pithecanthropoid whose remains were found in 

 the Neander Valley, although no longer an isolated in- 



PROFILE VIEW OF CRANIUM OF PRIMITIVE TYPES. 

 Lenormant, flistoire anctenne de I 'orient, I, 138. 



stance of primitive anthropology, still commands a special 

 interest and will, in addition to the comments and pic- 

 tures presented to our readers, justify the publication of 

 some pertinent quotations which were collected by Mr. 

 Charles H. Ward of Rochester. 



Dr. Fuhlrott describes the locality where the remains 

 were discovered in the early part of 1857 as follows : 



"A small cave or grotto, high enough to admit a man, and 

 about 15 feet deep from the entrance, which is 7 or 8 feet wide, 

 exists in the southern wall of the gorge of the Neanderthal, as it is 

 termed, at a distance of about 100 feet from the Diissel, and about 



