Beproduced through Ike courtesy of 

 Charles Scribner's Sons 

 Distribution of tliree principal cranial types of man in Western Europe today ; also location of the supposed 

 descendants of the disharmonic type of the Cr6-Magnons [Fig. 268, p. 499, Men. of the Old Stone Age] 



*'Men of the Old Stone Age" — A Review 



By CLARK WISSLER 



THIS new book ^ by Professor 

 Henry Fairfield Osborn gives 

 us the essential facts needed to 

 comprehend the natural history of 

 Europe in its relation to man. Such a 

 coordination of the leading sciences can- 

 not fail to be stimulating from every 

 angle and forms a book which everyone 

 can take up with the assurance of full 



1 Men of the Old Stone Age. Their Environ- 

 ment, Life and Art. By Henry Fairfield Osborn. 

 Svo., pp. XXVI + 545, 8 plates, 268 figs, and map of 

 Palaeolithic tour. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 

 1915. 



return. Each specialist could write a 

 review of its contents from his own 

 vantage ground without fear of tres- 

 passing upon others, but we shall in this 

 instance direct our attention to prehis- 

 toric man himself. Europe being for 

 most of us the ancestral home, the phrase 

 "Men of the Old Stone Age" at once 

 raises the question as to their relation to 

 us. Knowing that our culture is the 

 accumulation of ages, can it after all be 

 that we ha^'e some heritage from this 

 remote age? Perhaps the following 



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