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Man's Progress Following the Decllxe of the Cro-Magnox Race 

 Cro-Magnon destiny was no exception to w hal liad gone [)efore or wliat 

 would follow many tniies therealter. It embraced the irresistible tendency 

 toward racial decline with iinal extinction, and this was the fate which did 

 at length befall Cro-Magnon man. As the day of his ascendancy waned, a 

 new race invaded western Europe. Thus the Old Stone Age came to its con- 

 clusion approxmiately 10,000 years ago, with the advent of the more vigorous 

 Neolithic man. He developed an innovation in the construction of his miple- 

 ments in the fact that he now polished the stone. The principal change, 

 however, was an economic one, namely, the introduction of a rudimentary 

 knowledge of agriculture with the corresponding use of a variety of plants 

 and seeds. This naturally was accompanied by a gradual development of 

 tools and implements for the preparation of the soil and the garnering of 

 the harvest. As tiller of the soil or as herdsman, there was equal need for a 

 permanent abode. What, therefore, in earlier Mousterian times gave the 

 first decisive impulse to the upbuilding of the possessive sense, now found still 

 more substantial inducements to incite the aecjuisitive tendencies of man. 

 At this time also ])ottery was introduced and used in the preparation of 

 food. These two great changes aHecting the food suj^plx ot the race had 

 far-reaching ellects upon the actual metabolism of the people. Cultivated 

 crops of various kinds now ga\'e a greater \ariety m carbohydrate nutrition, 

 whik' cooking produced modilications in tlu' proteins which must have had 

 tlu'ir elfects upon the pioeesses of digestion. The ad\antages of domesticating 

 man\ animals for food sup|)ly were realized earl\ in Neolithic times. Domes- 

 tication also brought to man's aid the scr\ie(.'s of the horse in transportation 

 and conveyance. Two varieties ol cattle were successlully domesticated, the 

 Celtic shorthorn and the longhorn. In fact, tlu' New Stone Age witnessed a 

 domestication of animals which corrt'sponded clost'ly with that of present 

 times and included cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, horses and dogs. 



