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latitude or directioii are said to be of tlie same stock as the cave 

 dwellers of Frauce. 



But these are archicological or anthropological questions, only inci- 

 dentally attecting- art, and therefore need no further argument (u- cita- 

 tion of authority. 



THE ASPECT OF 3IAN OF THE PALEOLITHIC PERIOD. 



Of conrse no man of any of the epochs of the Paleolithic i)eriod has 

 ever been seen, and therefore he is not described by any person of 

 modern or historic times. Xo history, however ancient, will contain 

 any rei)resentation of him. Egyptian, Chaldean, and other Oriental 

 civilizations may contain sculptured representations of man of high 

 antiquity, and possibly one can not say that these were not individuals 

 of prehistoric ages, but no one can say, with any certainty, that they 

 are. Any attempt to reproduce or represent the cave man must be 

 largely theoretical. We have some of his skulls and long bones. We; 

 have his pictorial representations as shown by the engravings of that 

 time and figured in this paper (fig. 36). It is said by those anthropolo- 

 gists who have investigated the subject most profoundly, that the Ber- 

 bers of northern Africa and the Caribs of the islands in the Atlantic 

 Ocean most nearly correspond with the man of Paleolithic times. 

 They judge this by comparison of the anatomy and from a considera- 

 tion of the evidence. With this for a foundation, the anthropologists 

 of the Paris Exposition of 1880 reproduced groups of the people of the 

 Paleolithic period, which were installed on the foyer of Anthropological 

 Hall. Plate 18 represents two of these groups. Fig. 1 is a man and a 

 woman of the Chelleen epoch, represented in the act of chipping flint 

 nodules and making the implements belonging to their epoch, such as 

 are shown in figs. 1 to 9. Fig. 2 of plate 18 is a reproduction of the 

 cavern of Laugerie Basse, representing a man standing, just returned 

 from the chase; while seated opposite him are two women, presumably 

 his wives, engaged in engraving the bones of the cavern, some of which 

 have possibly been shown in this paper. 



Whether the statuettes found by Judge Piette and forming part of 

 his collection were actual representations of the peoples who made them 

 or who inhabited the localities is not determined. Piette is of opinion 

 that they were, and that the specimens represented two groups or races 

 of people— one fat and heavy, the other thin and light. 



CONCLUSIONS. 



Sundry modern authors have enunciated various theories of art, 

 based upon the pyschologic proposition of the parallelism of human 

 thought and the similarity of human needs. With this and the assump- 

 tion of a permanence of the relations of man to his environment for a 

 foundation, they have formed the conclusion that peoples or tribes 

 in a given stage of culture adopt similar arts and indeed a general 

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