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MAN 



displayed a human ability not to be despised. For this reason he is known as 

 Homo priiiiigcnius. YvX his aj^e-likt' alliliations, in sj:)ite of his human intelH- 

 gcnce, make it probal)le tliat he was not the dircet ancestor of mocU'rn man. 





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IIU. M \\I)I 1; 1 HAL FLINT WORKERS. 

 This group of Mousterian cave dwellers is taken trom a mural painting by Charles R. Knight made 

 under the direction of Professor Osborn. It is arranged to show the physical characters of Neanderthal 

 man. The background is the famous cavern of Le Mousticr. From The Hall of the Age of Man, 

 American Museum of Natural History. 



The lossil rt'mams of the Ncanchrthal raee have been found widely 

 scattered throuji;hout Europe, in France, in Belgium, in Germany, in Mora- 

 via, in Croatia, and c\cn in the Fsland ol Jerst'v. The earhest disco\'ery ot 

 this race dates back to 1848, when the (jibraltar skiill was iound b\- Lieu- 

 tenant Mint. The si<;;nilicanee of this lind, liowe\er, was not fully appreci- 

 ated ior more- than sixty \ears. NcaiuK'rthal lossils comprise a collection ol 

 skulls, skeletons, mandibles and tt'cth in total, a remarkablx large number 

 of fossilized j)arts Irom w Inch the osseous appearance ol the race has been 

 determined beyond all doubt. 01 the skulls only lour ser\e the purposes of 

 exact endocranial study, such others as are know n being too fragmentary or 

 too greatly damaged to permit of more precise deductions. 



In the valley of the Dordogne, southwestern France, the Abbes Bouys- 

 sonic and Bardon (Autumn, 1908) disco\cred in a ca\ ern near the little 



