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had not attained to the organization of brain that 

 marks the Modern Man type. Professor Boule speaks 

 of the brain of Neanderthal Man as "presenting 

 numerous primitive or simian characters, especially 

 in the relatively great reduction of the frontal lobes 

 and the general pattern of the convolutions." The 

 probability is that Neanderthal Man was a very 

 silent person, and partly because he had not much 

 to say. Intelligent he doubtless was, but in a some- 

 what simple fashion. He was notably "eye-minded," 

 not "ear-minded." 



This picture, based on anatomical facts, may have 

 some color added to it by what is known of the activi- 

 ties of this primitive kind of Man. He found shelter 

 in caves, but he probably wandered about a good deal. 

 Among his contemporaries were reindeer, bisons, 

 ibexes, and the like, but it is not certain that he was 

 able to make any of these his booty. He seems to have 

 lived on coarse food, largely of a vegetable nature, 

 and sometimes gritty, as his teeth plainly show. He 

 seems also to have caught small mammals and sucked 

 the marrow from their bones. According to Professor 

 Boule, he sometimes suffered from inflammation of 

 the gums and worse; and this may have given him 

 food for reflection. There is nothing very remarkable 

 about his stone weapons and implements, for though 

 it would puzzle most of us to make them, they were 

 simple and rude — of the style called Mousteriam 

 There is just a trace of the use of bone. The evidence 

 of fires in the caves seems to be clear, but it is not so 

 certain that there is warrant for the statement often 



