750 



MAN 



as Paleoanthropus hcidclbergensis, although possessed of a low psychic 

 organization shmvccl a certain ad\ance over its earlier human predecessors. 

 The Heidelberg man, moreover, appears to have been the precurscr, perhaps 



nurifittacian 



FIG. 32- 



MngcialC'Mi'U.M 





CUcllc 



EarlxlAclicuUun 



Azili 



Mou,steriat* 



Courtesy, American Museum of Natural History 



THE EVOLUTION OF THE LANCE POINT THROl GH THE SEVERAL 

 STAGES OF THE OLD STONE AGE. 



the actual progenitor, ol a race which was later to show pronounced signs of 

 progress. This was the great Neanderthal race, and because of his pos- 

 sible ancestral relation to it, Heidelberg man is olten spoken of as 

 Prc-Neandert haloid. 



The actual acKances made b\' Paleoanthr()]:)us are dillicult io trace 

 in those relics indicating his powers in handicralt. lie j)rol)abIy was a 



