-6o MAN 



still in the possession of their country, were practising their waning Mouster- 

 ian industries. The two types of cultural activity, therefore, came in contact 

 as these two races met, and consequently show the inlluence of some inter- 

 mixture. It should be observed, however, that this intermixture was strictly 

 confined to the industries themselves and did not involve either of the two 

 races of man. Even in their burial customs the Cro-Magnons followed the 

 ceremonies of the Neanderthals, choosing the same kind of burial site, 

 interring the dead with implements of industry and warfare. 



The result of the encounter between Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon was 

 that of a superior people with a much inferior one. Probably possessed of the 

 bow and arrow, with other advantages for warfare, the Cro-Magnon had 

 little difficulty in the conquest of a people already reduced in physical resist- 

 ance both by disease and the severe climatic conditions of the Fourth 

 Glacial Period (beginning 70,000 years ago). This dispossession of the 

 Mousterian must have been complete, for in the Cro-Magnon race there is 

 no sign of such admixture as often occurs when a victorious nation, having 

 completely annihilated all of its male opponents, still retained man}- of the 

 women in the households of the conquering warriors. Men and women alike 

 appear to have shared this extermination of the Neanderthal race. It was 

 probabl\ the increased brain power of the Cro-Magnon which caused this 

 great change to sweep over western Europe at the beginning of post-glacial 

 times. This view is based on the appearance of a large brain case of this race 

 and the development of an almost modern forehead and forebrain. 



Cro-Magnon Periods 0/ Art and Industry. The Cro-Magnons were a 

 race which developed in Asia but seem to ha\ e had no connection of an 

 ancestral kind with the Neanderthals. They possessed a brain capable of 

 more complex ideas, greater comprehension, more reasoning powers, a wider, 

 more facile imagination. Abo\e all, they were endowed with a highly artistic 

 sense which had not been present in any of the previous races of man. 1 ndeed. 



