WHOLE VOL. SKELETAL REMAINS OF EARLY MAN HRDLICKA 333 



strata which testify to much the same hahits of Hfe. Yet Aurignacian 

 man is often represented as a new-comer, of a different species from 

 that of the Neanderthaler, and mentally vastly superior. 



Clothing. — About the clothing of Neanderthal man nothing is 

 known directly, as is also the case with Acheulian and Aurignacian 

 man. But the cooling climate, on the one hand, with the much 

 increased numbers of tools with a cutting-edge and especially of 

 scrapers that occur in the Mousterian and later deposits, on the other 

 hand, indicate extensive preparation of the skins of animals, to be 

 used, doubtless for clothing and bedding. No sudden change in this 

 connection is observable from the Acheulian to the Mousterian or 

 from the Mousterian to the Aurignacian period. 



Food. — Neanderthal man was chiefly a hunter and trapper of the 

 larger mammals of his time. He knew fire, but knew not domestication 

 of animals, or agriculture. He compared in these respects with the 

 preceding and following man as follows : 



FOOD, AND HABITS RELATING THERETO 



