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like the race which occupied and decorated the Altamira, Marsoulas, 

 and other caves of Spain and France. He painted; he possibly 

 carved on rocks ; he used bone tools ; he made pottery ; he per- 

 forated stones for either heading clubs or to be used as make-weight 

 for digging tools ; his ornaments consisted of sea-shells ; and the 

 ostrich egg-shell discs which he made may be said to be a typical 

 product of his industry. And this culture is retained in South 

 Africa by a kindred race, but more dolichocephalic — the Bushmen- 

 Hottentots. 



The traces which he has left of his culture are now traced in 

 Africa from Cape Agulhas in the south, to Cape Bon in the north. 

 Even in neolithic sepultures of Spain his typical egg-shell discs are 

 found. Analogous are most of his tools and his expression of 

 culture to those of xlurignacian man. 



But in spite of this great resemblance, or perhaps similarity, it is 

 risky, to say the least, to uphold the Strand Looper as the linear 

 descendant or living representative of the man of Solutre or 

 Aurignac. Of the physique of the latter we know nothing beyond 

 the steatopygia of his women, which he has reproduced in his 

 figurines, and perhaps exaggerated ; and we can judge of him only 

 by the relics of his culture, which does, however, strikingly resemble 

 in some respects that of the Strand Looper branch of the San. 



