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The Cro-Magnon people are supposed to have produced the 

 drawings and paintings on the walls of European caverns which 

 are so beautifully reproduced in Osborn's book (Fig. 121). It is 

 certain that they were mentally developed to a point which would 

 have made this attainment in art possible. In addition there is 

 evidence that their art included crude sculpture. Industrially 

 they worked flint and bone, and probably developed weapons 

 such as the spear and harpoon {¥\g. 122). They were easily on a 

 par in these respects with existing savage peoples. 



What may have been the fate of the Cro-IMagnon race we cannot 

 know with certainty. Their head form is so nearly reproduced in 



Fig. 122. — Chipped stone implements such as were made and used by the 

 Cro-Magnon race. Numbers seven and eight are supposed to have been 

 used for sculpture. (Fi-om Men of the Old Stone Age by Henry Fairfield 

 Osborn, after Breuil, courtesy of Charles Scribner's Sons.) 



the people of Dordogne that Osborn emphasizes the possibility 

 that the ancient race gave rise to these modern inhabitants of 

 their old land, and correlates with this the theory that the Basque 

 language, different from all other European tongues and the most 

 primitive of all, bears the stamp of early association with the Cro- 

 Magnon tongue. 



Recent Human Evolution. The fact that the ancient Cro- 

 Magnon race was so highly developed anatomically places addi- 

 tional emphasis on the course of evolution in an intelligent species 

 as already outhned. Although these magnificent representatives 

 of our species lived at least twenty-five thousand years ago, they 

 were structurally similar to ourselves. Mentally the gulf between 



