9i8 MAN 



his iudsment that Rhodesian man occupies a far more primitive place in 

 an any of the Neanderthals. 



Brain of the Predmost Man 



It would be particularly illuminating were the brain of the great Cro- 

 Magnon race available for study. These people occupied an exalted position, 

 even as the earliest representatives of Homo sapiens, and the record of their 

 remarkable existence should be corresp)ondingl\- complete. But in lieu of any 

 survey of the cerebrum of this race, it is necessary- to draw analogies from 

 certain of their human contemporaries who lived in middle Europe during 

 Solu" mcs. These others were a remarkable people also. They are 



known as the great mammoth hunters of Predmost whose social affiliations 

 ally them closely to the Briinn race. The remains of these men of the Old 

 Stone Age were found in .Moravia. Associated with them were the fossilized 

 bones of nearly nine hundred specimens of mammoths. In addition to these 

 fr^sils of men and beasts there were manj- highly worked flints including 

 spearheads of the laurel-Ieaf type, a pattern which marked this industry as 

 that of the Solutrean era. At Predmost, where .Maika discovered a collective 

 burial of fourteen human beings, there were also the remains of six others. 



In stature these f)eople must have belonged to a large and powerful 

 race. Their prowess as trackers of great game was exceptional, judged by the 

 fossils of the huge mammals among which the\- reposed. This fact gave them 

 the name of "mammoth hunters." But it is the reproduction of their cere- 

 bral characters which raises them at once to a plane higher than any of the 

 earlier races of man, in fact, places them definitely in the category of Homo 

 sapiens. These intrepid hunters had much in common with the Brunn race, 

 much, indeed, that resembled their splendid contemporaries of western 

 Europe, the Cro-.Magnons. Of these latter there is ample record, in conse- 

 quence of which they will always rank among the noblest representatives 



