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that of modern man, especially in the regions devoted to the higher 

 mental activities. However, that these cave men were not without 

 ability is attested by the well-wrought stone hunting implements 

 found associated with their remains. But bestiality outweighs hu- 

 man features, according to modern 



Fig. 281. - - Skull and face of Nean- 

 derthal Man, Homo neanderlhalensis. 

 (From Lull, adapted from McGregor 

 and Boule.) 



Fig. 282. — Skull and face of 

 Cro-Magnon Man, Homo sapiens. 

 (From Lull, adapted in part from 

 McGregor.) 



standards, though it seems that some higher human traits lurked 

 in their make-up because in certain instances there is evidence 

 of reverential burial, with all that it implies. (Figs. 281, 283.) 



6. Cro-Magnon Man 



Sometime in the last glacial epoch the supremacy of Nean- 

 derthal man was challenged by a superior race — the first that 

 is recognized as of the same species, Homo sapiens, to which 

 modern man is assigned. This invading race of Cro-Magnon men 

 seems to be of different immediate stock from the Neanderthal men 

 of Europe and, in large part at least, to be responsible for their ex- 

 tinction. Apparently Cro-Magnon man came from an Asiatic source 

 about fifty thousand years before the dawn of history, after an ante- 

 cedent evolution of many more thousands of years from a Ne- 

 anderthaloid stem. If this is true, modern man may be, so to 

 speak, Neanderthal man's progressive nephew, though not his 

 direct descendant. 



