The Evidence Furnished by Anthropology 



we may know something about their forms and the activities 

 of their Hves. They were short in stature and heavy built, 

 the tallest being about five feet three or four inches tall. 

 Their eyes were extremely large and round and their eye- 

 brow ridges resembled those of the gorilla. They had a low 

 receding forehead, a thick broad skull, broad noses and short 

 thick neck. They had massive jaws, a protruding mouth but 

 no chin. Their teeth are more nearly human and yet not 

 human ; in fact their teeth bear evidence that for a considera- 

 ble period of their existence they were herbivorous in their 

 habits although at a later date they were flesh eaters. Their 

 hands were stubby, the fingers and thumbs short. For the 

 most part their bodies were supposed to be covered with a 

 thick coating of hair. Their big toes are widely separated 

 from the other toes much in the same fashion as those of the 

 great apes. Their thigh bones are still curved outwards 

 Indicating that they have not as yet reached a straight upright 

 position. The convolutions of the brain have begun to show 

 in dim foldings. 



We are sure that Cultural Evolution Is as yet, figura- 

 tively speaking, in an embryonic state. That it began with 

 the immediate predecessors of the Mousterians, can not be 

 doubted. But what did this race contribute as a heritage to 

 the succeeding races of men? Let us examine the records 

 they have left behind for this race is now extinct; but the 

 monuments of their activities stand as guide posts along the 

 road that the human family has traveled in its ascent from 

 a lower to a higher state. 



They had begun to develop a spoken language — to desig- 

 nate objects by names. In their time, perhaps, an Idea or a 



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